A hardware failure is forcing me to install Win2003Server as a dual-boot on my current openSuSE11.0 machine. My problem is openSuSE is installed on a ‘hardware’ nVidia-chipset RAID1 that the SuSE Installer successfully detected (/dev/mapper/nvidia_afecfajc). I’m really scared I’m going to break my system because I don’t know how to recover the bootloader on a RAID1 after the windows install.
I know for Win2003 I have to install a RAID driver during initial install. I’m pretty sure it will install OK. If this weren’t a RAID1, then I would simply reinstall the bootloader with the Install DVD “repair” function. But by trial-and-error I found out that openSuSE’s “repair” function does not detect the RAID1 (i.e., /dev/mapper/nvidia_afecfajc) - it just sees the hardware partition and drives - so I can’t figure out how to reinstall the bootloader correctly. Previously I had to go through a “New Install” with the Install DVD in order to have the openSUSE11.0 installer recognize the RAID1. Luckily, my home partition is separate, so I only had to reinstall the OS and apps.
Can anyone suggest a procedure to use with RAID1 to recover the bootloader and chainload Win2003? (I’m a command-line noobie-klutz!)
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