ubuntu and Raid 0

[waynezo]

I tried to run an ubuntu live cd and it looked like it was loading ok but then it went to a black screen with a blinking dash at the top left. I suspect it won't mount my windows c drive which is raid 0. I want to instal it on an external firewire drive anyway. Will I need to pull the power plugs from my c drives or is there another way to make it load on the external drive.

My system,
Athlon XP2400 cpu
Gigabyte GA-7vaxp Rev 1.1 mb with promise onboard raid controller Bios Award F8
Serial No. : 010471933173101421sn0240904160
Kingston value ram 1536mb DDR pc3200 400mhz
Dual 80gig maxtor hd's 7200rpm ata 133 raid 0
Seagate 250gig external hard drive
Artec 16X DVD-ROM
Cyberdrive 40X16X48 CDRW
Verbatim 2.4X DVD+RW/R
Liteon Superallwrite lightscribe 16/48 DVD/CDRW
ATI all in wonder 8500dv AGP primary video card
Radeon 9250 256MB PCI Secondary video card
Nokia 21" 445Xpro CRT Monitor
2 Hyundai 19" LCD Imagequest Monitors L90D+
Antec 430 watt true power ps
Ahanix platinum xp steel case
Windows xp home sp1
AVG Free antivirus
Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.3

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Waynezo

[mrrangerman43]

I tried to run an ubuntu live cd and it looked like it was loading ok but then it went to a black screen with a blinking dash at the top left.
So it never booted to a GUI/Desktop? If that is the case, it sounds like linux has an issue with one of your devices. A live-cd doesn't mount the hard drive, it runs off the cd-rom. A live-cd should boot to a desktop GUI reguardless of raid0, now it may have an issue with it if you try to install, but you aren't very clear as to what/where point the live-cd failed. My guess would be, ubuntu is having a problem with your secondary video card, try pulling that card and see if the live-cd will boot.

[waynezo]

It did get as far as the screen where it checks the system and the word ok appears after a list of items.

[techwise]

seem like you are freezing on X startup. You likely have a monitor that cant be driven by the settings the live cd is attempting to pass to the monitor.

you can specify a safe resolution on bootup, usually by typing something like "linux 1024x768" at the boot prompt.

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[waynezo]

There was a choice at startup to run in safe graphics mode which I selected. everything registered with an "OK" including "X". However pcmia did not recieve the ok and was skipped over. I got to starting system log starting kernel log then it went to a black screen and froze.