I just tried to install 10.04 amd64 server on a box with 3 500G WD and 1
500G Hitachi Drives.  I wanted to setup Raid 5 and then LVM for all the
partitions.  I used the latest ISO files.

Raid 5 for sda1,sdb1,sdc1,sdd1
LVM named system: /, /boot, /home, /var, /tmp, /usr, /usr/local, /opt

After installation and the box rebooted, I got error and initramfs
prompt.

ALERT!! /dev/mapper/system-root does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!

cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-server root=/dev/mapper/system-root ro quiet

cat /proc/mdstat  and I saw that md0 raid 5 with sd[abcd] is
resyncing...

ls /dev/mapper
control
ls /dev/md*
/dev/md0p1   /dev/md0

As you can see there is no system-root and etc under /dev/mapper.

I saw that in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=........

ls /dev/disk/by-*
/dev/disk/by-id/     /dev/disk/by-path

As you can see there is no   /dev/disk/by-uuid in /dev/disk.

Previously, I encountered similar problems when installed on a system
with 2 250GB WD disks (1 big Raid1 and then LVM all partitions).  I then
tried to set 3 Raid 1 small partitions for swap, / and /boot and 1 big
Raid1 on LVM for other partitions.  With this set up, 10.04 amd64 server
was able to successfully booted up.

This is a very serious bug considering that a lot of people will be
running server edition with some types of RAIDx and the installation
failed to correctly set these up.   This bug is a show stopper and makes
users pondering the quality of each Ubuntu releases.

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mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569900
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