Hi jjbarrows, Good (?!?) to see that I'm not the only one who's got this problem. Do you know whether anyone's working on fixing this bug?
Take care, Alex 2009/7/21 jjbarrows <[email protected]>: > I can confirm this issue with the jaunty server install CD. > > I tried repeatedly to install Jaunty and it always failed to boot with > the "no block device found" error repeated four times (I had 4 > partitions used in the raid config). > > I gave up and installed 8.04. then in a fit of madness upgraded using > the CD to 9.04 and got the errors and no boot again. > > trying: >> mdadm -As > created the first of the /dev/md0 (my swap partition) > but didnt find /dev/md1 (my / partition) > checked the mdadm.conf file on the initramfs and it had configuration details > for both md devices (using UUID's) > > -- > Jaunty install failure with Software RAID (mdadm) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371913 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: mdadm > > This bug is RELATED to 330298 but not identical. Here's the description: > > Software RAID fails to boot on a Jaunty 9.04 (server x86) install. I compared > the setup to Hardy 8.04 (server x86) which works flawlessly. The installer > completes but boot fails. Here's the problem description: > > - Install completes flawlessly. mdraid is built (and it finishes > synchronization as tested by looking at /proc/mdstat) > - Boot starts up initramfs but fails to find the second disk (I have mirrored > partitions on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - specifically /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1, > and /dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3) > - The failure report is as follows: > > After Grub startup I get ... > >> block device not found > > After about 10-20 seconds I end up in initramfs' Busybox. > > Moreover, mdadm does not find the second drive. It only finds one of the two > drives and offers to start up raid in degraded mode. That said, even if I try > reassembling it, it simply doesn't find the second drive. The installer finds > it, though. Even the 8.04 installer finds it. This makes the installation of > 9.04 on any server for me a non starter right now. > -- Jaunty install failure with Software RAID (mdadm) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371913 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
