unable to complete Software RAID installation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-target (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Evan |
Bug Description
I'm using the Hardy Alpha-6 Alternate CD to try to install a simple Software RAID mirror, same as I've done several times before in Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 (as well as OpenSuSE 10.3). I create the 'physical disk for raid' partitions but then when I select 'Setup Software RAID' it gives the following error:
Failed to remove conflicting files
The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target,
but was unable to do so.
FYI - These are two known-good freshly-wiped hard drives.
If this really is a bug in the scripts it should be easy to recreate. I tried to create a 30 GB 'md0' with ext3, bootable, mounted as "/", and also a 10 GB 'md1' swap (I know, it's overkill).
P.S. I know that 7.04 and 7.10 both have problems with their GRUB scripts which prevents one from booting from only 1 disk in a mirror, and I'm hoping to do a fresh install of my main machine after Hardy is released. But this depends on Hardy having working GRUB scripts, which is what I was trying to test. I didn't expect to get stuck at the install...
Changed in ubiquity: | |
assignee: | nobody → evand |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-8.04 |
Exactly same bug with Hardy Alpha-6 AMD64 Alternate CD, but my raid configuration is more simple :
sda: sda1: 1GB /boot, sda2: 1BG swap , sda3: 80GB Raid
sdb: sdb1: 2GB not use, sdb2: 80GB Raid
'Setup Software RAID':
Failed to remove conflicting files
The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target,
but was unable to do so.
After this, i have done the install with ubuntu- 7.10-alternate- amd64.iso with the same configuration and all is ok.
My sata controller is the nvidia nforce4 and all raid option in bios are disabled.