Precision 470 with CERC SATA RAID0: dual boot?

[glowing pear]

Here's the output from the terminal.  I'm guessing that the first two errors
are the relevant ones (gparted sees the array as sda and sdb), and the hdc
stuff is because I'm running the LiveCD.

Think I can shrink the NTFS partition in Windows and use fdisk to make
partitions for Linux?  Will GRUB figure that out when I try to boot?

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo gparted
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Error: Unable to open /dev/sdb - unrecognised disk label.
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system).
/dev/hdc has been opened read-only.
Error: Unable to open /dev/hdc - unrecognised disk label.

On 8/7/06, Scott M. Dier <sdier at cs.umn.edu> wrote:
>
> glowing pear wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We recently purchased a Precision 470 with WinXP installed to a 2-disk
> > 160GB RAID0 array.  I'd like to put Ubuntu Linux on there and be able to
> > dual-boot it.  I've been doing a lot of research and this doesn't sound
> > particularly easy, unfortunately (dealing with preexisting software RAID
> > seems like a dark art in Linux).  Right now, I'm booted off the Dapper
> > Drake LiveCD and I loaded the aacraid module into the kernel. GPartEd
> > doesn't seem to be able to see what's going on with the disks, but fdisk
> > does (?)
>
> Do you have any output on the terminal when gparted can't see the
> partition?  I would also try the 'alternate' install disk, which may
> work better in this case.
>
> --
> Scott Dier <sdier at cs.umn.edu>
> CS/IT Systems Staff
>
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