Comment 22 for bug 560748

  Hello,

Yep, I was probably too hasty to draw conclusions. This is the long
version what happened.
I took the normal amd_64 bit desktop distro from Ubuntu site and made
usb startup disk out of that. Then I booted without any options. At
point when "install" was offered I opted that and found my way until
partman was supposed to show the available partitions - well nothing
there. Then I booted second time and opted booting up the system w.o.
install. All ok and when the system was up I opened terminal and gave
"dmraid -ay" which activated raids. As third step I tried "install" from
desktop - I found my way to disc partitions which were visible now -
however installer didn't allow me to install the system to wanted
existing partition nor it offered correctly swap. So - I could not
install the system that way either. BTW deleting the raids is not a good
option as my system is dual-boot and I am running win7 there.

Currently the linux partitions are in unusable state. I can boot the usb
startup and do the mount as described. Then I have the option to untar
the 804 backup again and get to starting point.

Please let me know what info you need - I am now pretty well prepared to
dig into system.

Br Pekka

On 27.9.2010 18:06, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I'm not sure why you came to that conclusion. If dmraid -ay said it
> found and activated an array, and then you were able to see it in the
> installer, then it DID activate the array. The question is, why didn't
> it to so automatically? You aren't booting with the nodmraid option are
> you?
>