DaDude Posted September 23, 2008 Author Share Posted September 23, 2008 Thanks, but I'm more concerned with resolving the IDE/RAID conflict so I can boot both Vista and Ubuntu without any problems. I'm going to start another topic on this as it is totally different than my original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted September 23, 2008 Well, Linux has an issue with the "IDE" setting. Vista has an issue if you switch it to "RAID" (after it had been running as IDE). If you switch to RAID, then install Vista, will Vista work in that setting? If so, then you ought to have both Vista and Linux run ok with your SATA/IDE/RAID setting in BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphi Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Take a look at this KB article, xraffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaDude Posted September 23, 2008 Author Share Posted September 23, 2008 Take a look at this KB article, xraffle. Interesting link. It sounds like it may solve the problem, but before I take this risk, I just have a few questions. When I make this change, will Vista works fine with RAID? Also, is this a risky thing to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 This is a known issue, believe it or not, with your Dell. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/153702 The bug is listed as being in Gutsy, but what you have described is exactly the same. The link on that page will take you the work-around that Dell figured out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaDude Posted September 23, 2008 Author Share Posted September 23, 2008 This is a known issue, believe it or not, with your Dell. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/153702The bug is listed as being in Gutsy, but what you have described is exactly the same. The link on that page will take you the work-around that Dell figured out. That workaround is not very straightforward with the instructions. For example, where do I create this script, etc.? Thanks for help everyone, but this Ubuntu is A LOT more complicated than I thought. Everyone told me it's supposedly easy, but I don't think so. I'll just stick with Vista and put up with it. It's not worth destroying my computer for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted September 23, 2008 Meh. Ubuntu doesn't work with it one way, Vista doesn't work with it the other. Yeah, it's a Linux problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyther Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Part of the problem is that you have new hardware, and unfortantly most of this stuff isn't documented, so the developers need to take their best guess. Most of the time they make good guesses sometimes they make bad ones. Also that fix is fairly straight forward. In ubuntu do the following in a terminal window... 1. sudo gedit /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/load_ata_piix 2. Copy and Paste this into the editor window #!/bin/sh PREREQ="" prereqs() { echo "$PREREQ" } case $1 in # get pre-requisites prereqs) prereqs exit 0 ;; esac modprobe -Qb ata_piix 3. sudo chmod +x /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/load_ata_piix 4. sudo /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/load_ata_piix 5. sudo update-initramfs -u -k all Source: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubunt...ion_causes_hang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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