Finally! The solution for #2 is to do: partman/alignment=cylinder
After this bootparam (in pxelinux.cfg/default), mdadm did the right thing and the system booted just fine. Note that this is done on 2 different x86_64 systems: 1. Sun workstation Ultra20 m2 2. HP xw4600 Both have 2 SATA disks of the same size and same manufacturer. I'm glad that this is finally resolved! -- preseed Lucid with RAID and LVM fails to boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs