hi !

Caught in a little situation here ..... a little history before I give u the problem ...

I have a dell machine on which I installed a new hard drive and partationed it to install two OS's on it (Win 2K and Win XP pro) .... its working great and I have the multiboot setup perfect.....

My motherboard doesn't support SATA so I bought a SATA card and installed it on the motherboard and hooked up a SATA hard drive to it

Now the problem:

1. When I boot my computer I get this weired screen now which says "No Raid" and something else and then it jumps to the multiboot menu...

2. The SATA card has an extra IDE channel so I want to hook up and old hard drive to it and install linux on that drive .... is it possible .. if so will it destroy my multiboot ? I still want to to be able to multiboot to Win2K or XP pro ....

Any help would be great .... thanx

Cannot say, most probably is a wrong setup in the BIOS, either the one of the PC or of the add-on board (the latter could be also a jumper)


No problem at all, if you pay attention NOT to overwrite MBR of your current drive(s) when installing Linux.
A very handy way to triple boot with the minimal hassle is to keep your current setup with NTLDR and BOOT.INI and use GRLDR (part of Grub4dos) as a secondary bootloader to boot Linux.

Get latest version of Grub4dos here:
http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome

If the read me text has not enough details, search on the 911CD forum for Grub4dos, you'll find some threads better explaining the procedure.

jaclaz