1. Go into your motherboard’s BIOS and turn on the RAID support
2. Go into your RAID’s BIOS and set-up your RAID partition
3. Boot the Live CD
4. Open Terminal and type the following:
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sudo apt-get install dmraid
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sudo modprobe dm-raid4-5
7. Upon reaching the partition menu, select your RAID partition
8. Upon reaching the install confirmation menu, click on the Advanced button and uncheck install boot loader
9. Once the installation is completed, check your partitions by typing the following in Terminal:
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cd /dev/mapper
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dir
11. Now we have to see how the partitions are set-up, so type the following in Terminal:
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sudo fdisk dabdgddgLinuxFTW
13. Note and copy which partition is the Linux partition (the other ones you will see is extended and swap); I will usedabdgddgLinuxFTW1 as an example
14. Type q in Terminal to exit fdisk
15. Now we have to mount the RAID partition in order to set-up grub by typing the following in Terminal:
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sudo mount dabdgddgLinuxFTW1 /target
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sudo mount --bind /dev /target/dev
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sudo mount -t proc proc /target/proc
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sudo mount -t sysfs sys /target/sys
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sudo chroot /target
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apt-get install dmraid
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apt-get install grub
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mkdir /boot/grub
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cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* /boot/grub
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grub --no-curses
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device (hd0) /dev/mapper/dabdgddgLinuxFTW
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root (hd0,0)
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setup (hd0)
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quit
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update-grub
17. Finally reboot.