Public bug reported:
Hi this is a bit difficult!
This is a report for ubuntu server amd64 10.04 beta2.
Our standart setup for server looks like this:
/ on /dev/md0 (RAID1) over /dev/sd[ab]1
/var on /dev/md1 (RAID1) over /dev/sd[ab]2
/tmp on /dev/sda3
swap on /dev/sdb3
The server I install ubuntu on was running suse before. It contains a
12TB RAID6 over 15 disks. This provokes the partitioning programm to
display an error. This should be better a warning, because I don't want
to partition a RAID6 but put the filesystem directly on it. See picture
1 (IMAG0010k.jpg)
I want the partitioning scheme to be different than it was for the previous
SuSE installation and therefore cleaned up the partition tables on sda and sdb.
It confuses me with the display of a partition number on a RAID1 and
unused space.
After accepting the whole partition scheme (as shown above) the systems
asks me how to boot from degraded RAID1 and then asks me to if I really
want to write the changes to disk. I accept this and the it reports me
an error that says it somehow can't mount the RAID on / (rootfs). I have
no picture of this error because I managed to work around this:
I went to the second tty and created the ext3 on the RAID1s manually on for /
(rootfs) and /var.
Then I rebooted and just reused the already existing partition tables. (picture
2 IMAG0012k.jpg)
The I the installtion process went on and it accepted the /-partition.
I hope this is understandable. I'm not a native speaker.
Regards
Lars
PS: It was hard to get here. It should be much easier to find the button to
report a bug! It took me nearly 15 minutes.
PPS: I dont knwo how to attach more than one file!
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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errors while partitioning/formating RAIDs during server installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559091
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