Probing for devices to install to failed
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| subiquity |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Hardware is a Supermicro server with an Intel RSTe firmware RAID controller with two SSD drives connected on the SATA bus. These two drives have a filesystem on them from an old system. There is also a software-only RAID device composed of two NVMe drives.
I want to install 20.04 over the existing firmware RAID, using the installer to delete the partitions for a fresh start. It reliably crashes at this step each time. See attached crash report generated by the installer for details. Going into a shell and viewing the output of `cat /proc/mdstat` shows active and fully synced RAID devices. I can mount partitions on these devices manually. It appears all the arrays are functioning correctly.
My work around is to use the 18.04 Netboot installer based on d-i, which has succeeded for three of the five systems I'm building so I'm not exactly stuck but it would be nice to start with 20.04 rather than upgrading from 18.04 via `do-release-
| Lee Azzarello (lee-rockingtiger) wrote | #1 |
