Trying to dualboot XP and openSUSE

[EvilRick]

Okay, I'm really pulling my hair out over this and I just can't get it figured out.

K8V SE Deluxe
VIA VT8237 Raid 0 (2x 80GB SATA)
80GB PATA (Just holds data)

Here's my current partitioning:

/boot 133 MB (Reiser) Primary
WINXPPRO 74.5GB (NTFS) Primary
/ 20GB (Reiser) Logical
/home 52.4GB (Reiser) Logical
swap 2GB Logical

I run into a problem when trying to install GRUB from openSUSE. It will not install to the MBR, /boot or anything for that matter. I've only been able to get into openSUSE by booting from the CD. Each time it comes to the install of the boot loader, it throws up a blank window telling me there was a problem installing GRUB. After a system repair, I was able to get it to give me an "GRUB error 17". I just don't get it. Is there some sort of "mapping" thing going on here that openSUSE can't handle the RAID0 array? I've not found anything searching on either the error or the array.

I know there's some *nix gurus in the workwork here, time to come out and play.

EDIT - I think I may know what the problem is. I'm going to change my partitioning to:

WINXPPRO 74.5GB (NTFS) Primary
/boot 133MB (Reiser) Primary
/ 20GB (Reiser) Logical
/ 52.2GB (Resiser) Logical
/swap 2GB (swap) Logical

I don't think XP likes not being on the first partition and therfore GRUB is having a problem seeing it. Not sure, but I'm going to give it a go.

[Foggy]

I don't know about openSUSE but most distributions that I tried wont handle RAID.

[EvilRick]

I think I might have found out the problem is with GRUB and NTFS.

I've given up on it for today, but I think I might have found a fix for it. It involves mapping the hard drive using GRUB's menu list file. I'll give it a try tomorrow or Monday maybe.

[EvilRick]

I found out that *nix just isn't going to support my RAID array the way I want, so I just removed it. I doubt I notice any great performance hit, but it would have been nice if I could have done it my way. : \

Anyway, I've got Windows XP Pro on my first SATA drive and am currently instaling Ubuntu 7.04 on my second.

I have openSUSE on my laptop already, so I guess one of that distro is enough.