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Ok. I followed you insturctions. Thanks for the continued assistance, by the way. I know I'm trying to do something on the fringes of possible and/or functional. I just get something in my head and I'll work on it until my head explodes. So I've got my drive broken up into" /" and. "/home" so I followed instructions using the root partition And got the same error. I attached a photo. I'm going to try it again just in case, and try it on the home partition as well. I will also try a reinstall followed by your instructions...

When i select Linux in GRUB the boot up screen comes up and the red thing spins than after about 8 seconds the picture attached pups up on my screen.

also nothing works unless I first boot into live CD and type

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/bin/echo 1b4b 91a2 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ahci/new_id

Followed by

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dmraid -ay

Then follow your instructions. Should I be doing this part a different way?

Also there is RAID drive which is /dev/mapper/ddfl_Phoenix
Windows partition /dev/mapper/ddfl_Phoenix1
Root partition Phoenix2
Home partition Phoenix3
Swap is 4.
I assume your instructions with /dev/sdxx should be replaced with /dev/mapper/ddfl_Phoenix2


Also since I began this escipade yesterday I get 4 quick beeps in a row and the pattern repeats usually during post or either OS boot. The beeps are coming from the mobo speaker. It seems to have no effect tho... things just boot ul as usual and it beeps away and eventually stops... sometimes it beeps other times it doesn't. It's weird...

YOu will have to chroot into Ultimate Edition partition and then run the above 2 commands after that.

Chroot from running a live Ultimate Edition session. Once booted up from live disk, chroot and follow the commands i have given above.

So you are right, you need to activate the RAID first. So do that. Next open a terminal and scan for partitions/RAID drives with:

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lsblk

see what it gives
Also..

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blkid

See what the above command also gives.

If it shows you your raid drive, good.

Yes, by /dev/sdxx i mean your raid partition. You are correct. If you have further partitioned the RAID volume it will show you the different RAID parttitions. Ultimate Edition will be on one of them, choose the right one to chroot into.

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root@ultimate:/home/ultimate/Documents# lsblk
NAME                     MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE   MOUNTPOINT
sda                        8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk   
└─sda1                     8:1    0   100M  0 part   
sdb                        8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk   
sdc                        8:32   0 698.7G  0 disk   
sdd                        8:48   0 238.5G  0 disk   
├─sdd1                     8:49   0 238.5G  0 part   
└─ddf1_Phoenix (dm-0)    252:0    0 476.8G  0 dmraid
  ├─ddf1_Phoenix1 (dm-1) 252:1    0 229.5G  0 part   
  ├─ddf1_Phoenix2 (dm-2) 252:2    0  69.9G  0 part   
  ├─ddf1_Phoenix3 (dm-3) 252:3    0 175.6G  0 part   
  └─ddf1_Phoenix4 (dm-4) 252:4    0   1.9G  0 part   [SWAP]
sde                        8:64   0 238.5G  0 disk   
├─sde1                     8:65   0 238.5G  0 part   
└─ddf1_Phoenix (dm-0)    252:0    0 476.8G  0 dmraid
  ├─ddf1_Phoenix1 (dm-1) 252:1    0 229.5G  0 part   
  ├─ddf1_Phoenix2 (dm-2) 252:2    0  69.9G  0 part   
  ├─ddf1_Phoenix3 (dm-3) 252:3    0 175.6G  0 part   
  └─ddf1_Phoenix4 (dm-4) 252:4    0   1.9G  0 part   [SWAP]
sr0                       11:0    1   3.6G  0 rom    /cdrom
loop0                      7:0    0   3.6G  1 loop   /rofs
root@ultimate:/home/ultimate/Documents#

AND

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root@ultimate:/home/ultimate/Documents# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="58A09E0BA09DEFAC" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix1: UUID="F2343EBA343E81A1" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix2: UUID="5dd5d0f8-3542-4f4c-ba1a-0a56bb1d316b" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix3: UUID="c7c0c196-410d-4e10-9e4e-dfa21b54c859" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix4: UUID="c7c4e643-cac2-4b31-8f5f-e0f18b17b3d5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/dm-4: UUID="c7c4e643-cac2-4b31-8f5f-e0f18b17b3d5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sr0: LABEL="Ultimate Edition 3.5.2 LTS" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="d49284d9-b30e-4adb-a3c5-1556c7280bad" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sde1: UUID="8e0ca286-6aa3-4649-82dd-1a07603def35" TYPE="ext4"
root@ultimate:/home/ultimate/Documents#

Ok so the error from busybox when booting ultimate has the same disk as my installed ultimate edition. As you can compare the list above with the new picture posted here.
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/5dd5d0f8-3542-4f4c....... is the same as Phoenix2 above.. so at least were seeing a matching error with the drive now just how to fix the error and get dev/disk.by-uuid/5dd5d08f..... to exist...

These are your RAID partitions:
/dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix2 --- 70GB
/dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix3 --- 176GB

From the look of it i think you have installed Ultimate Edition on the 70GB partition; /dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix2
You are getting the initramfs error on bootup because dmraid is not active/installed. It is detecting a single disk to load root filesystem from. It needs to me mapped to the Ultimate Edition RAID linux partition. This is done by chrooting the exact Ultimate Edition RAID partition and installing/activating dmraid.


So now mount that drive when running live disk and then chroot it:

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sudo su
/bin/echo 1b4b 91a2 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ahci/new_id
dmraid -ay
mkdir /mnt/ultimate
mount  /dev/mapper/ddf1_Phoenix2 /mnt/ultimate
cd /mnt/ultimate


and then run the command:

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pwd

The above will tell you the exact absolute path.
Next chroot as per the above instructions...

That probably would have worked, but i decided to give up after both my Windows and Ultimate Edition partition just started collapsing, to the point of "Blue Screen". Ive split my SSD drives up one drive for each Windows/Ultimate Edition. Ill just have to wait till i can scrape up enough dough for a RAID Controller.

Thanks for the help tho. This forum is the best for help, along with UEOZ, you guys have other support forums blown out of the water. there is what like 7 or so moderators here? i just don't know how you've possibly managed to memorize and implement all the commands needed to use this Operating System like you do. I've been at it on and off for 2 years now and I've got about 3 dozen commands memorized and understood to the point where i can configure them and manipulate them without having to copy/paste from some website. i just cant imagine how you do it...

Good Luck to all those who venture down the Marvell SATA 3 FakeRAID path.

Here is a link to further assistance provided by ther Ultimate Edition Team regarding this issue.
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