[Bug 569900] Re: mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument

2010-05-22 Thread Mike Perry
I was able to get raid1 working directly from the install by following the advice in this thread. Specifically, I manually paritioned my drives with fdisk, and did not have any raid partition fill up the entire disk. -- mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument https://bugs.lau

[Bug 569900] Re: mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Perry
Wow, I thought I was going crazy until I saw this bug. Here is my setup: Two identical 500G Seagate drives. I sliced each of them up into 3 partitions using the alternative installer. sda1, sdb2 - 1G - raid1 as md0 for boot sda2, sdb2 - 5G - swap sda3, sdb3 - remaining space as prompted - raid1 a

[Bug 465231] Re: Karmic: legacy grub-install fails, possibly due to missing /target/etc/mtab

2009-12-16 Thread Mike Perry
I can confirm this bug, and I can confirm that Daniel's work around is valid. I'd also like to note that the only part of the /target/etc/mtab that is needed is the line contain the root file system, or the line containing the /boot file system (if applicable). In my case I was using the 9.10 serv