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.
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mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument
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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
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