On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 17:38, Forge XP wrote: > Proceeding on that assumption, I've found a good way to get (I believe) any > distro onto an ataraid: > > VMware. > > Here's a quick and dirty overview, I'll fill in more details as I can get > them together, assuming there's interest as well. > > 5. Leave LILO on the virtual machine's MBR, but put GRUB on the real MBR > from inside the VM. > 6. Boot into the ataraid-ready distro, fine tune GRUB config, fstab, etc. > 7. Use the VM config as an emergency Linux recovery method. > > Sound good? Any criticism/comments? Anybody want to help document a HOWTO? > > Rich 'Forge' Mingin > Open Source Advocate > Linux Addict > Tribes 2/Quake 3/RTCW junkie > Forge on http://www.tech-report.com Have you tested this? I've seen NT and 2000 crash with blue screens rather than allow a program direct access to the hard disk. Windows 2000 crashed on me with some kind of hardware protection message when I attempted to install LILO into the real MBR from within Linux/VMWare. Also, wouldn't you need to insert the ataraid kernel modules within that virtual Linux session in order to properly install LILO or GRUB onto the RAID array?
