I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 x86 server. I ran into some problems (started a thread on ubuntu-users that probably should have been sent here, but only just discovered this list yesterday). The short version of the two problems and associated workarounds is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/311637 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/83231 For the first one I used the 'rescue broken system' on the install cd and then removed the dmraid package, for the second I added '/sbin/udevadm settle --timeout=10' to /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/udev and rebuilt the ramfs. With those out of the way we booted fine. The next thing I wanted to redo my install, configuring the md arrays with a chunk size of 256K - and discovered that there was no way I could see to do this in the installer. I worked around this by booting a live cd from another linux distro and setting up the arrays manually using mdadm (I think I could have done this using the install cd's 'rescue broken system' mode, but the live cd was a nicer environment). So to the point of the message - have I missed an option on the install cd : can you configure raid chunksize? (it only seemed to want to know how many disks were to be in the array). Best wishes Mark -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
