I was able to get around it. But used only 3 of the 6 drives in the system. Disabled the onboard RAID and used SoftRAID via Ubuntu 14.04 Server, then went with Xubuntu-desktop (for minimalistic aesthetics). Booted install with NODMRAID option and answered No when asked to Activate onBoard SATA RAID, then used Ubuntu to setup SoftRAID. Created 3 non-RAID partitions (at the beginning of each striped drive - for boot loader), then made the raid parts for swap & root. Installed but declined on MBR install for Grub2 (since it didn't work last time for me), but managed to install it on the 3 non-RAID partitions I created on each of the drives (as I set them all bootable; /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc). Despite seeing the loading sequences (somehow, the splash doesn't show despite modifying the grub config file to "quiet splash") it works. Thanks for the reply.
On 06/06/2015 09:19 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > For fakeraid, you need to install grub to the raid device rather than > one of the component disks. That is to say, /dev/mapper/nvidia_cedbaadh > ( though you also appear to have a pdc controller fakeraid, which is odd > ). > > > ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1462583 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS install with FakeRaid (DMRaid) - unable to install GRUB To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1462583/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
