Ubuntustudio 9.10 fails to install on Intel RAID

[DenisM]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Two 750GB SATA disks joined into RAID1 array, which divided into 4 partitions:
1. pri NTFS WinXP (100G)
2. pri NTFS Userdata (240G)
3. pri efs4 / (55G)
4. log
5. ext swap (7.5G)
6. ext efs4 /home (295G)

I want to setup a dual-boot system with Alternate AMD64 DVD. An installation process stops at GRUB. I can try to setup GRUB again and again, no luck. If I chose to continue without boot loader, I get the following message:

"No boot loader has been installed, either because you chose not to or because your specific architecture doesn't support a boot loader yet.
You will need to boot manually with the /vmlinuz kernel on partition /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13 and root=/dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13 passed as a kernel argument."

In syslog I see that WinXP partition discovered successfully but the / one didn't:

20microsoft: debug: /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid11 is a NTFS partition
20microsoft: result: /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid11:Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition RU:Windows:chain
50mounted-tests: debug: os found by subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft
...
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/10freedos on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
10freedos: debug: /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13 is not a FAT partition: exiting
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/10qnx on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
10qnx: debug: /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13 is not a QNX4 partition: exiting
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20macosx on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
macosx-prober: debug: /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13 is not an HFS+ partition: exiting
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
20microsoft: debug: /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13 is not a MS partition: exiting
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/30utility on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
30utility: debug: /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13 is not a FAT partition: exiting
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/40lsb on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/70hurd on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/80minix on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90solaris on mounted /dev/mapper/isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13
...
main-menu[483]: (process:31864): Volume group "isw_bdgibehedh_Raid13" not found

I'll test if 9.04 has the issue too ASAP.

[DenisM (b48)]

9.04 amd64 has been installed successfully.
Meanwhile it didn't list WinXP in GRUB's menu.lst, although it recognize it while installing. However, it's an extraneous problem.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

I get the same error WITHOUT Intel RAID. Ubuntu Studio Karmic 9.10 simply fails to install GRUB (at least GRUB 1), even if you follow the alleged workaround for a related problem documented here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8264172&postcount=12.

The fact that Ubuntu Studio won't install, and the developers admit the issue, seems to me to be what we'd call a STOP SHIP issue, and require the ISO images to be re-rolled with corrected code.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Take a look at Bug 465231. That was the problem I encountered. Is it the same problem you're having?