Public bug reported:
I just did a clean install of 9.04 server rc. I did have a heck of a
time wresting with partman, but I finally, after several tries, got my
disks set up with mdraid. (I had trouble like this with partman as far
back as Gutsy.)
Here's my partition layout (same on both disks, one on sda2, the other on sda4):
- Partition #2 at the beginning of the disk - almost all of the 500GB disk,
raid physical
- Partition #1 at the end of the disk - 20GB swap
I used Software RAID to combine the two RAID partitions, to mount as /,
formatted as ext4. The disks are SATA, as is the CDROM (which the
installer had no trouble with). The motherboard is an MSI X48 platinum
with an Intel X48 and ICH9R.
Grub obviously loaded, but perhaps one of the following happened:
- No mdraid driver is being loaded
- It can't find the drives
- Grub was not configured correctly
- The initrd was not setup correctly
The install otherwise goes through just fine. Then it's time to reboot,
and the first thing I get is four errors about there being "no block
device found". It times out, then asks me if I want to boot degraded
RAID, which itself times out too quickly, and then I get an error,
"ALERT! /dev/md0 does not exist."
Other info:
Dead in the water. This is a show-stopper bug. Of all of the things
that can go wrong, this is one of the worst. It's manageable when some
app crashes. It doesn't make a good impression when the install process
fails. Shouldn't that get some extra attention?
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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9.04 server rc clean install mdraid "no block devices found"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363434
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