*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 44609 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44609
** Project changed: grub => grub (Ubuntu)
** No longer affects: grub (Ubuntu)
** No longer affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
** Package changed: grub-installer (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu)
** This bug has been
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 44609 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44609
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
ubiquity and grub-install: fails to install grub on software RAID
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Hello !
The problem actually is that the mdadm program is NOT installed on the new
system.
I opened a shell and did :
[code]root@ubuntu:~# chroot /target
root@ubuntu:/# grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: disk `md0' not found.
root@ubuntu:/# ls /dev/md*
Finally found the solution, which leaves me with a question.
Having successfully installed an 11.10 server with RAID, I tried again
on 11.10 desktop: this time, after getting the message that GRUB had not
installed, I chrooted into /target/, did 'sudo-apt-get install mdadm',
then 'sudo
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Title:
** Summary changed:
- Ubiquity fails with EFI and software RAID
+ ubiquity and grub-install: fails to install grub on software RAID
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Title:
Updating bug description - I'm having the same problem in a VirtualBox
environment (disks partitioned as GPT, no EFI).
I was able to use ubuntu-11.10-server-amd64 to install a system with
mdadm RAID1 (GPT partitioning, 1MB BIOS GRUB partition, ~20GB RAID)
and have the system boot successfully,
