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Hi !
I'm have never worked with a RAID system, so I can't offer the best of advices,
but there might be some basics here we should cover first since you are new.
I highly recommend you make a USB bootable iAtkos, because it just saves you tons of time running through the install process over and over. Pretty soon you'll be fine tuning your system too, and sometimes that mean a blank install, or try drivers from the bootable, and maybe even after success and loads of meddling you might start over to make a final long run "perfect" system.
First, please post your most complete system info, specific hardware. That helps a lot and also attracts your peers through searches.
Chameleon 2 is fantastic. stick with that.
Avoid creating partitions at first, your goal now is to reach know-how in booting a basic install of OSX.
Boot, go to Disk Utilities, choose the parent HDD and not a specific partition. Click on ERASE, from the drop down chose 1 partition, GUID and erase. Dont enter your own name. Check its in HFS+ Journaled.
This is to return drives to basic OSx basic setup.
Now you should check out the RAID tab, and about merging the two drives together before proceeding with install. From here, I'm sorry, but any advice on which RAID system is best would be purely speculative of me. As is merging, because you have a hardware raid chip.
Osx can be quite picky with some BIOS's and AHCI and SATA / IDE modes. you should look into this too. Search your model out in "normal" install method and look for successful cases and / distros (iDeneb, iAtkos, Kalywat, etc)
Some distros come better equipped and patched for certain cases like yours, video, AMD etc etc...
I also highly recommend you make a normal install using single HDD and discover your system flaws, like networking, sound video etc... and learn how to get them going. You can easily get a Kernel Panic, and your girls' Macbook will be heaven sent. Pop out the HDD, into an enclosure, mount on macbook, got to System/library/extension, add or remove kext, pop HDD into your Dell, boot with -v -f flags (to rebuild cached kext file) and your back into Leopard without having to go all linux command prompt hell (for me lool) or in wort case scenario, erase and re-install because of one dumb driver you had to try to eliminate options.
When you make your perfect install, or if hardware unlucky, an install you can live with despite limitations, make a dmg image file of if (using Carbon Copy Cloner - on of the best apps ever!!) and proceed with RAID experiments !
When you know how to make it work, just need to restore the dmg image using disk utilities, and in 5 minutes you'll have your kitty purring for your attention !
sorry not to be more techy about your specific issue, but I hope my experience helps you!
Last edited by Gurruwiwi; 07-24-2009 at 10:40 PM.
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