oh, that looks relevant, indeed. in particular i did use fakeraid before trying software raid. the weird thing is, though, that it worked under 8.04.
On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:04 AM, ceg wrote: > Have a look at "dmraid eats mdadm-managed raid in upgrading from 9.04 to > 9.10" Bug #442735 > > ** Summary changed: > > - jaunty 1st boot: second drive not found > + jaunty 1st boot: second drive not found [old superblocks] > > ** Summary changed: > > - jaunty 1st boot: second drive not found [old superblocks] > + jaunty 1st boot: second drive not found [old superblocks?] > > -- > jaunty 1st boot: second drive not found [old superblocks?] > 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: Incomplete > > 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. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/371913/+subscribe ''~`` ( o o ) +-------------------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.-----------------------------+ | Prof. Alexander J. Smola http://alex.smola.org | | Yahoo! Research 2GA2125 phone: (+1) 408-759-1044 | | 4301 Great America Pky. Oooo. | | Santa Clara 95054 CA ( ) Oooo. Australian National University | +---------------------------\ (----( )--------------------------------+ \_) ) / (_/ -- jaunty 1st boot: second drive not found [old superblocks?] 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
