Activity log for bug #279288

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-10-06 20:36:52 Myers bug added bug
2008-10-06 21:36:40 Wouter Stomp None: bugtargetdisplayname Ubuntu debian-installer (Ubuntu)
2008-10-06 21:36:40 Wouter Stomp None: bugtargetname ubuntu debian-installer (Ubuntu)
2008-10-06 21:36:40 Wouter Stomp None: statusexplanation
2008-10-06 21:36:40 Wouter Stomp None: title Bug #279288 in Ubuntu: "Alternative installer forces use of dmraid (FakeRAID)" Bug #279288 in debian-installer (Ubuntu): "Alternative installer forces use of dmraid (FakeRAID)"
2008-10-08 15:43:42 Colin Watson debian-installer: status New Triaged
2008-10-08 15:43:42 Colin Watson debian-installer: title Bug #279288 in debian-installer (Ubuntu Intrepid): "Alternative installer forces use of dmraid (FakeRAID)" Bug #279288 in hw-detect (Ubuntu Intrepid): "Alternative installer forces use of dmraid (FakeRAID)"
2008-10-08 15:43:42 Colin Watson debian-installer: importance Undecided High
2008-10-08 15:43:42 Colin Watson debian-installer: bugtargetname debian-installer (Ubuntu Intrepid) hw-detect (Ubuntu Intrepid)
2008-10-08 15:43:42 Colin Watson debian-installer: statusexplanation Bumping to high since this is a regression from hardy.
2008-10-08 15:43:42 Colin Watson debian-installer: assignee themuso
2008-10-08 15:43:42 Colin Watson debian-installer: bugtargetdisplayname debian-installer (Ubuntu Intrepid) hw-detect (Ubuntu Intrepid)
2008-10-09 05:31:12 Luke Yelavich partman-base: status New In Progress
2008-10-09 05:31:12 Luke Yelavich partman-base: assignee themuso
2008-10-09 05:31:12 Luke Yelavich partman-base: statusexplanation
2008-10-09 05:31:52 Luke Yelavich hw-detect: status Triaged In Progress
2008-10-09 05:31:52 Luke Yelavich hw-detect: statusexplanation Bumping to high since this is a regression from hardy.
2008-10-09 23:00:37 Luke Yelavich description I wanted to install the 8.10 beta with the alternative install CD. I'm using a Asus P5B as my motherboard and have two (SATA) HDDs. All "hardware" RAID options in my BIOS are turned off. I was not able to install Ubuntu on only one HDD with the text installer. Also I was not able to setup a software RAID-1 with mdadm during the installtion. The options to setup a software RAID appeared but I was not able to setup a RAID-1 with mdadm as it was possible in earlier releases. The setup detects my 2 HDDs as one drive. This, I think, is because dmraid merges the 2 HDDs to one "virtual" drive. I can't see any option to deactivate dmraid. I see a big problem here when installing Ubuntu to a system with 2 HDDs. The content of both disk will be deleted even if you want to make changes to only one disk. I wanted to install the 8.10 beta with the alternative install CD. I'm using a Asus P5B as my motherboard and have two (SATA) HDDs. All "hardware" RAID options in my BIOS are turned off. I was not able to install Ubuntu on only one HDD with the text installer. Also I was not able to setup a software RAID-1 with mdadm during the installtion. The options to setup a software RAID appeared but I was not able to setup a RAID-1 with mdadm as it was possible in earlier releases. The setup detects my 2 HDDs as one drive. This, I think, is because dmraid merges the 2 HDDs to one "virtual" drive. I can't see any option to deactivate dmraid. I see a big problem here when installing Ubuntu to a system with 2 HDDs. The content of both disk will be deleted even if you want to make changes to only one disk. Rationale for user exception freeze: As indicated above, the user, dispite having all RAID options turned off in their BIOS, has remnants of a dmraid configuration left on their hard drive, which they don't want to use. It is wrong to force users to use such a configuratino when they don't want to do so, especially if the BIOS, dispite having RAID options disabled, is badly designed enough to leave the metadata for the configuration lying around. The attached debdiffs for partman-base and hw-detect implement this question. The actual UI change is in hw-detect/disk-detect. The change in partman-base is needed to ensure that if the user says no to using the dmraid arrays, the disk drives show up as normal.
2008-10-09 23:00:37 Luke Yelavich title Alternative installer forces use of dmraid (FakeRAID) User interface exception request: Ask the user if they wish to activate dmraid arrays.
2008-10-09 23:03:24 Luke Yelavich bug added attachment 'hw-detect.diff' (hw-detect.diff)
2008-10-09 23:03:24 Luke Yelavich bug added attachment 'partman-base.diff' (partman-base.diff)
2008-10-09 23:03:55 Luke Yelavich description I wanted to install the 8.10 beta with the alternative install CD. I'm using a Asus P5B as my motherboard and have two (SATA) HDDs. All "hardware" RAID options in my BIOS are turned off. I was not able to install Ubuntu on only one HDD with the text installer. Also I was not able to setup a software RAID-1 with mdadm during the installtion. The options to setup a software RAID appeared but I was not able to setup a RAID-1 with mdadm as it was possible in earlier releases. The setup detects my 2 HDDs as one drive. This, I think, is because dmraid merges the 2 HDDs to one "virtual" drive. I can't see any option to deactivate dmraid. I see a big problem here when installing Ubuntu to a system with 2 HDDs. The content of both disk will be deleted even if you want to make changes to only one disk. Rationale for user exception freeze: As indicated above, the user, dispite having all RAID options turned off in their BIOS, has remnants of a dmraid configuration left on their hard drive, which they don't want to use. It is wrong to force users to use such a configuratino when they don't want to do so, especially if the BIOS, dispite having RAID options disabled, is badly designed enough to leave the metadata for the configuration lying around. The attached debdiffs for partman-base and hw-detect implement this question. The actual UI change is in hw-detect/disk-detect. The change in partman-base is needed to ensure that if the user says no to using the dmraid arrays, the disk drives show up as normal. I wanted to install the 8.10 beta with the alternative install CD. I'm using a Asus P5B as my motherboard and have two (SATA) HDDs. All "hardware" RAID options in my BIOS are turned off. I was not able to install Ubuntu on only one HDD with the text installer. Also I was not able to setup a software RAID-1 with mdadm during the installtion. The options to setup a software RAID appeared but I was not able to setup a RAID-1 with mdadm as it was possible in earlier releases. The setup detects my 2 HDDs as one drive. This, I think, is because dmraid merges the 2 HDDs to one "virtual" drive. I can't see any option to deactivate dmraid. I see a big problem here when installing Ubuntu to a system with 2 HDDs. The content of both disk will be deleted even if you want to make changes to only one disk. Rationale for user exception freeze: As indicated above, the user, dispite having all RAID options turned off in their BIOS, has remnants of a dmraid configuration left on their hard drive, which they don't want to use. It is wrong to force users to use such a configuratino when they don't want to do so, especially if the BIOS, dispite having RAID options disabled, is badly designed enough to leave the metadata for the configuration lying around. The attached debdiffs for partman-base and hw-detect implement this question. The actual UI change is in hw-detect/disk-detect. The change in partman-base is needed to ensure that if the user says no to using the dmraid arrays, the disk drives show up as normal. Ubuntu-doc thread: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2008-October/011826.html Ubuntu-translators thread: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2008-October/001712.html
2008-10-09 23:04:32 Luke Yelavich bug added subscriber Ubuntu Release Team
2008-10-14 20:06:37 Colin Watson partman-base: importance Undecided High
2008-10-14 22:45:05 Launchpad Janitor partman-base: status In Progress Fix Released
2008-10-14 22:45:08 Launchpad Janitor hw-detect: status In Progress Fix Released
2009-12-05 04:27:24 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/partman-base
2009-12-05 11:44:22 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/hw-detect