I'm using the "Alternative install" CD for Kubuntu, Edgy Eft, Knot 2. I have two 120GB drives (PATA, Seagate), and I'm trying to set up software RAID1 across them. I have an Athlon 2800+ with a KT400 chipset.
Here are the steps I follow: 1) [All of the setup prior to the partitioner starting.] [The partitioner always spends about a minute at 38% doing no CD or disk access.] 2) Manually edit partition table 3) Select the first drive 4) Create new empty partition table 5) Select second drive 6) Create new empty partition table 7) Select FREE SPACE on first drive 8) Create new partition [119.0 GB, Primary, Beginning] 9) Use as: physical volume for RAID 10) Bootable flag: on 11) Done setting up the partition 12) Select remaining free space on first drive 13) [Set it up as swap] 14) [Repeat (7) to (13) for second drive] 15) Configure software RAID 16) [Write partition changes to disk and format swap partitions] 17) Create MD device 18) RAID1 At this point, I get an error that says, "No RAID partitions available", because no unused "Linux RAID Autodetect" are available. Well, I did set up the partition as "physical RAID volumes," but no mention was made anywhere about "RAID Autodetect." Also, these disks are brand new and clean. I manually wiped the disks (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda, same for /dev/hdc) before starting this install, so the partitioner bug that looks for existing stuff on the partition is not being triggered here. 19) Select Continue 20) 2 active devices, 0 spares At this point, the partitioner hangs up completely. Since I'm using the text installer, all I see on the screen is a bit of flicker of the cursor in the lower left. Also, the hard disk activity light is on, but there is no disk activity, so I don't know what the partitioner is doing to my brand new drives. The partitioner for Dapper worked just fine. Until this bug is fixed, can the developers put the Dapper version of the partitioner into Edgy? I think this bug should be marked "critical." I was planning to install Edgy Eft and use it as my main OS (tolerating some crashes and data loss), just so I could contribute to the bug database. But since I cannot even install the OS, I have to drop back to Dapper. The FIRST thing that needs to be debugged is the installer, and all other work should stop until the installer is perfect. That's my opinion anyhow. -- [Edgy Eft]Manual partitioning not possible at installation https://launchpad.net/bugs/57435 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
