mkinitramfs: missing md root /dev/mapper/mdRAID6-root /sys entry

[DaveAbrahams]

Installing jaunty server, minimal install failure.

[DaveAbrahams (boostpro)]

This appears to be the same as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498237

[DaveAbrahams (boostpro)]

Workaround: toward the end of the "install the base system" step, the installer stops and asks which drivers I want to install. I drop into a shell, then:

cd /target/tmp
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.92o_all.deb
chroot /target/tmp bash
dpkg -i /tmp/initramfs-*.deb

The install completes thereafter.

[DaveAbrahams (boostpro)]

Oops... I meant:

cd /target/tmp
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.92o_all.deb
chroot /target bash
dpkg -i /tmp/initramfs-*.deb

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

is it safe to install debian's version instead of ubuntu's?

I have the same + '[' '!' -e /sys/block/md ']' error trying to install 10.04 with root upon LVM+mdadm

should I use debian's or maverik's?

[maximilian attems (maks-debian)]

Maverick released with 0.98.1ubuntu6, which contains appropriate Debian changes for MODULES=dep

For Lucid easiest workaround is to use MODULES=most, check the settings with:
egrep -r MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools
and delete eventual driver-policy file from the installer with MODULES=dep.

Thanksfully in newer installs it should just work.