Vhozard's howto install ubuntu RAID on new Asus motherboards:
- First of all you'll have to prepare your Hard Drives for RAID:
- Boot your computer and go in the BIOS, goto "Storage Configuration ---> Configure SATA as" and set it to RAID. Save changes and reboot.
- After you rebooted press "Control + I" during boot (maybe it's a different hotkey, but I doubt that), that will take you to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager
- Here you can create a RAID volume (I like gaming and I have two Samsung Spinpoint F1R 320GB harddrives, so I made one big volume of 640GB RAID0)
- Then you need to download the Ubuntu Alternate cd-rom and burn it to a cd. (I have 4GB of memory, so I used 64 bit)
Also you'll need to set your Storage Configuration to IDE in your BIOS (you're probably thinking: "What?!", but it has to be IDE). Save changes and reboot.
- I assume you know how to setup your BIOS to use the dvd/cd-drive as first boot device.
"attempt to access beyond end of device rw=0, want=139526045, limit=1723392" Just ignore them and be patient.
- Boot from the ubuntu-cd and wait a LONG time, you really have to patient. Probably you will get a lot of errors, like:
- When all the loading is done, just follow the instructions and install ubuntu.
- After you installed ubuntu, go in your BIOS and set the Storage Configuration back to RAID. Save changes and reboot.
- Have fun!
Feel free to email me at [email]vhozard@gmail.com[/email], if you get stuck.
Greets Vhozard,
PS If you're experiencing strange lock-ups you have to add "acpi=off" and/or "noapic nolapic" and/or "all-generic-ide" to the kernel line when you boot from the cd-rom (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions for more information)