I can confirm this issue as well, on a Dell PowerEdge R210 with two 500GB drives.
Device Model: WDC WD5002ABYS-18B1B0 Serial Number: WD-WCASYC640636 Firmware Version: 02.03B04 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes Device Model: WDC WD5002ABYS-18B1B0 Serial Number: WD-WCASYC631505 Firmware Version: 02.03B04 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes The boot problem was the same (dumped to initramfs prompt on reboot after install). I found the same cylinder 60802 anomaly with the partition tables when I used the installer's partitioner to create them. My partitions consisted of a 484GB main partition (marked bootable) and a 16GB swap partition on each disk, all set to type FD (Linux RAID autodetect) and added to /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 respectively. md0 was then formatted ext4 and mounted to /, and md1 was set to swap. To workaround the issue, I created my partitions with fdisk instead (alt-switched to another tty during partitioning step) and then created my RAID sets in the installer's partitioner. As a result I could still create partitions that filled the whole drive. This worked and the system now boots properly. My partition table looks like this: r...@belair-auto2:/# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000b35fa Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 58843 472654848 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 58843 60801 15728160+ fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000c1204 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 58843 472654848 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 58843 60801 15728160+ fd Linux raid autodetect (kweichel...md devices snipped) -- mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569900 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
