I'm trying to get Windows XP and Fedora Core 3 to dual boot on my system. I have 2 SATA drives(RAIDed), and 2 IDE hardrives(Not RAIDed) connected on my HPT374 RAID controller.
Each and every time, GRUB hangs... all I see is GRUB and a continous blinking cursor.

I've searched for any combinations of grub, raid, FC3, hang, SATA and a few others and have tried all solutions that have come up. I've tried every possible solution from "linux hda=XXX,YYY,ZZZ" to "sfdisk -d /dev/hdX | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hdX" and even reinstalling GRUB to no avail. I've installed GRUB onto it's own boot partition... tried to put both Windows XP and FC3 on RAIDed SATA drives, then tried to put them on separate hard drives. Tried to install FC3 by itself on the RAID and on the non-RAIDed drives. Nothing works. If anyone can offer some help, please share your knowledge, I would really appreciate it. This has wasted 3 of my days . Thanks a bazillion in advance!

list of sites with "possible" solutions I have tried:
http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=237511
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2.shtml
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux...ios_1024_Limit

P.S. Heck... Knoppix won't even boot on my computer O_O... the little Penguin shows up and it hangs there. Cursor doesn't even blink.

since no-one has replied heres my cent worth

1 do U know why U need raid.....can I talk U out of it......its for contigency of hardware failure......and even then restore can be a bitch.

I have a sata and its not partitiion hw raided or software raided......instead I rely on www.partimage.org for images and other such files burnt to cdr

2 here is some more links U may care to read
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=raid


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Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it! I'll take a good look at the information you've provided. But I may just forget about going RAID since a lot of people have talked me out of doing it