Very cool ! Kudos to you :-) ace On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote: > RAID support can be implemented in Ubiquity with simple 3-part patch - > I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD based Baltix distro into software > RAID devices: > > 1. /lib/partman/init.d/30parted should report /dev/md* devices to > Ubiquity - line "grep -v '^/dev/md' | " should be removed from 30parted > file. I've commented out this line with: sed -i "s,\( *grep -v > '^/dev/md' |\),#\1," /lib/partman/init.d/30parted > > 2. Sofware RAID volumes (devices) should be visible, ideally this > should be implemented in manual partitioning step of Ubiquity. > Currently I've executed these commands: mdadm --create /dev/md0 > --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm --create /dev/md1 > --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 > > 3. /target system should have mdadm package installed before initrd and > grub-install are executed in /target . I'm suggesting to include mdadm > package in CD's pool folder and patch Ubiquity to automatically install > mdadm into /target if user decided to install Linux into md device > (/dev/md* are assigned to one or more folders). If mdadm package isn't > in /target when Ubiquity executes grub-install then Ubiquity finishes > installation at 94% with fatal error: grub-installer: info: Running > chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)" grub-installer: > /usr/sbin/grub-install: 446: mdadm: not found > grub-installer: : mdadm -D /dev/md0 failed > grub-installer: Searching for GRUB installation directory > ... found: /boot/grub > grub-installer: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. > grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"' > failed. > > Currently I solved this problem simply by executing this command after > Ubiquity installs language packs (at ~85%): sudo chroot /target/ > apt-get install mdadm
-- RAID not implemented (use alternate CD instead) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44609 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
