booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

[Andrew Gould]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Diego Arias <dak.col at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Diego Arias <dak.col at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould
>> > <andrewlylegould at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f.  I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.1
>> >> (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive
>> >> mode from RAID to IDE.  Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7
>> >> installation.  (The computer is currently being restored to factory
>> >> state.)
>> >>
>> >> Is there an option I can pass to the kernel to bootup the FreeBSD
>> >> installation DVD while the hard drive is in RAID mode?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Andrew
>> >
>> > Do you have a RAID?
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>> I don't have a RAID that I know of.  The computer came with Windows 7
>> Home Premium 64 and the hard drive set to RAID in the BIOS.
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>> The computer contains only one hard drive and one DVD writer.  The
>> hard drive has 3 partitions:  a small partition, the OS partition and
>> the recovery partition.
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> Do you try restoring with IDE instead of RAID?
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I don't think that will work.  I've read online that you have to
reinstall Windows to change modes.  Restoring maintains the old
Windows configuration.

I've been told that *Ubuntu live CD's can boot on computers with RAID
mode on.  That's why I was hoping that there was a kernel option I
could use at bootup.

Andrew