Interesting, thanks for the info. Sorry to flog this to death.
Online ubuntu docs with respect to dmraid are definitely somewhat
scattered and of varying levels of authority. From a naive "newer is
better" perspective, the page you mention was last edited 2008-08-06,
long before jaunty went live
Yes, i understand that it's a driver for BIOS magic that i'd rather not
use.
> When you create a RAID from the BIOS it does a RAID1 or whatever on the
> entire array using all the drives you select. You cant do a partial bios
> raid setup as this is illogical.
Is there a usage scenario where this
I want to reiterate that the original bug was reported against the
_alternate_ install cd. If i understand correctly, the alternate
install cd is required to install using any raid functionality. The
initramfs installed by the alternate cd included mdadm, which was
unexpectedly difficult to remove.
Just to reiterate, I achieved the desired results described in the
original bug after extensive research, trial and error before i filed
the bug.
"To get rid of dmraid you just don't install it. The live cd doesn't
have the dmraid package preloaded"
Ok. But that's not at issue. The alternate i
Public bug reported:
I just finished installing a freshly downloaded jaunty alternate install
cd using mdadm partitions in linux as a dual-boot with windows, leaving
windows in it's factory-fresh "fakeraid" partition(s). The only
difficult part was getting rid of dmraid.
I first shrank the windo
