Installer does not detect hard drive partitions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I tried installing Ubuntu 10.04 but the installer does not detect any hard drive partition. In /var/log/user.log I noticed the following line:
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... ubuntu activate-dmraid: Serial ATA RAID disk(s) detected. If this was bad, boot with 'nodmraid'.
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So I rebooted with the nodmraid option selected. Unfortunately, the installer still did not detect any hard drive partition. The messages in /var/log/user.log now read:
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... ubuntu activate-dmraid: Serial ATA RAID disk(s) detected. If this was bad, boot with 'nodmraid'.
... ubuntu activate-dmraid: Enabling dmraid support.
... ubuntu dmraid-activate: WARNING: dmraid disabled by boot option
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So, basically, the system decided that my choice of 'nodmraid' was stupid and ignored it. I had to fire up KPackageKit and remove the dmraid and libdmraid packages so that the installer could detect my hard drive partitions.
This bug is a regression since Ubuntu 9.04 where installation works out-of-the-box. Installation fails identically with Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04.
Here is the output of lspci on my system:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
tags: | added: ubiquity-2.2.23 |
tags: | added: lucid |
Today I had a similar experience and so did: http:// www.longren. org/2010/ 05/11/how- to-make- ubuntu- recognize- all-drives- during- install/
I had to remove dmraid from the livecd session to see all the drives in my computer. Even though I don' use raid!