Public bug reported:
So. I tried to do an install of 8.10 on a mirrored encrypted lvm, with
/boot on a separate mirror. With the alternate installer of course,
since it's funky stuff.
First thing I noticed was that the partitioning tool forgets that I said
to use the /boot mirror as /boot every time I do some luks and lvm
setup. No biggie, just a reinstall with me reminding the installer of
this at the end. Yay. Success. Or is it?
No. The system doesn't boot but tosses me into the initrd shell prompt.
With no query of the LUKS password at all. So it doesn't even seem to
try to set up LUKS at all.
'course, after I cryptsetup manually, I do get my md1_crypt. But wait,
it isn't the lvm physical volume. Turns out the installer creates a
"partition" (!) on the md1_crypt volume called md1_cryptp1 and installs
there. I lose interest in finding the correct magic (presumably dmsetup
is involved) to set that up even manually. This may be related to Debian
bug 494910. Except it was really well hidden in the Ubuntu installer,
didn't complain. Just asked to create a partition. I didn't think much
of it since it asked that in the previous release as well. It just
didn't actually, you know make it, so I figured it's just a silly
partman internal thing where it has to think everything has partitions
in it.
Sooyeah. In the future, you know, it'd probably cover quite a few
installation failure scenarios if you'd just see if a raid/luks/lvm
install manages to boot.
Meanwhile, I'll ponder about doing a fresh 8.04 and then upgrading, or
switching to Debian unstable...
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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8.10 alternate installer breaks in multiple ways with raid/luks/lvm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293754
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