Very cool ! Kudos to you :-)
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On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote:
> RAID support can be implemented in Ubiquity with simple 3-part patch -
> I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD based Baltix distro into software
> RAID devices:
>
> 1. /lib/partman/init.d/30parted should report /dev/md* devices to
> Ubiquity - line "grep -v '^/dev/md' | " should be removed from 30parted
> file. I've commented out this line with: sed -i "s,\( *grep -v
> '^/dev/md' |\),#\1," /lib/partman/init.d/30parted
>
> 2. Sofware RAID volumes (devices) should be visible, ideally this
> should be implemented in manual partitioning step of Ubiquity.
> Currently I've executed these commands: mdadm --create /dev/md0
> --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm --create /dev/md1
> --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
>
> 3. /target system should have mdadm package installed before initrd and
> grub-install are executed in /target . I'm suggesting to include mdadm
> package in CD's pool folder and patch Ubiquity to automatically install
> mdadm into /target if user decided to install Linux into md device
> (/dev/md* are assigned to one or more folders). If mdadm package isn't
> in /target when Ubiquity executes grub-install then Ubiquity finishes
> installation at 94% with fatal error: grub-installer: info: Running
> chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)" grub-installer:
> /usr/sbin/grub-install: 446: mdadm: not found
> grub-installer: : mdadm -D /dev/md0 failed
> grub-installer: Searching for GRUB installation directory
> ... found: /boot/grub
> grub-installer: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
> grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"'
> failed.
>
> Currently I solved this problem simply by executing this command after
> Ubiquity installs language packs (at ~85%): sudo chroot /target/
> apt-get install mdadm
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RAID not implemented (use alternate CD instead)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44609
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