** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: Fix Committed => In Progress
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: mdadm
In a KVM, I can do this just fine:
* Using 2 virtual disk images
* Install Lucid Server amd64
* Both disks partitioned to just one large Linux raid partition
* RAID1 these two together, /dev/md0
* Put / on an ext4 filesystem on /dev/md0
* Install
The above works.
However, I have spent my entire weekend trying to get 10.04 on a RAID1
of two 500GB SATA disks, without success.
I partitioned them the same as above. And conducted the install.
When I boot into the new system, I get dropped to an initramfs shell.
I can see that /dev/md0 exists, and is in the process of resyncing.
I try to "mount /dev/md0 /root" and I get:
mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument
Also, see something else that's odd... My /dev/md0 looks "correct", in
that it's composed of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. However, I also see a
/dev/md0p1, which is composed of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (the whole
disks?). Furthermore, if I go into /dev/disk/by-uuid, there is only one
symlink there, pointing to /dev/md0p1. And this UUID is what is in fact
in grub as the root device. That looks quite wrong.
This looks pretty release-critical, to me, as it's affecting RAID
installs of the server.
TEST CASE: The above problem should arise when attempting a RAID install
on any disk whose size is between 1048576*n+512 and 1048576*n+65535
bytes, for integer values of n. In order to reproduce this, the root
filesystem should be created on a RAID array whose member devices extend
all the way to the end of the disk (i.e. accept the default size for the
partition in the installer).
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+ To validate this from -proposed (once available), please note that you
+ will need to use a netboot installation image and boot with apt-
+ setup/proposed=true on the kernel command line.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569900
Title:
partman sometimes creates partitions such that there is ambiguity between
whether the superblock is on the disk device or the partition device
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