Keep escaping
I’m having a bit of a different issue with configuring my laptop for dual boot. My laptop is an MSI Gaming machine that came with a Plextor M6M (mSATA) 128GB SSD. I’ve added two more and have configured them as RAID5, handled by the BIOS UEFI. Windows 10 is installed on half of the drive and the other half is available.
When I boot with the USB Flash drive, I can start Ubuntu live with no issues. When I start GParted, I get a message that says the sectors are 2,048 in size and Linux only likes 512. I tell it to ignore and I see all of my drives and the RAID.
Gparted shows the nonallocated space and I’m able to access it.
I select it and issue the instructions as outlined in the article. To be sure that the settings are correct, I restart the machine. When I go back into
Gparted the free space is showing as non-allocated. I’ve done dual boots with a single drive but not with a RAID configuration. Any suggestions? JohnMartin,Terrell,Texas,US Jonni says: Unfortunately, the mechanisms used by motherboard firmware to do RAID (collectively known as ‘fakeRAID') are generally proprietary systems, which is why gparted gets confused and can’t do anything. It seems like you want to have both Ubuntu and Windows on the same array, but this will be complicated as Windows doesn’t understand (or refuses to understand) Linux’s softRAID.
FakeRAID isn’t a good idea since, if your motherboard breaks then you may need to find the same model to gain access to your data again. I suspect the reason things disappear after a reboot is that your motherboard’s RAID doesn’t like what gparted is trying to do. Likewise, gparted doesn’t understand what your motherboard is trying to do (it probably doesn’t really have 2,048
byte sectors). There are fakeRAID implementations that work in Linux, through
dmraid, but I’ve never played with them and there’s some conflicting information online. Hope you find a solution, and duly escape Windows.