LiveCD Install can not mount existing reiserfs that is part of software raid1 (/home)

Bug #69471 reported by Ace Suares
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Bug Description

Hi,

after a not-so-good upgrade to 6.10 via dist-upgrade, I am now trying to reinstall from the liveCD.

I choose manual partitioning.

My /dev/hda1 = 10 GB, will be reformatted as ext3, so far so good.

My /dev/hda4 = 100 GB, is an existing reiserfs and should be mounted as /home. /dev/hda4 is part of a software raid1 array.

My /dev/hdc1 = 30 GB and should be reformatted as ext3

So, what happens after the partitioner formats /dev/hdc2 and /dev/hda1 ? It stops and tells it can't mount /home.

If I choose 'continue' the installer exits.

I switched to a terminal and tried to mount /dev/hda4, and this is the error I got:

root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'

The graphical installer just said there was a problem, not that there was a problem with 'raid'.

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Ace Suares (acesuares) wrote :

This is the error message in the graphical interface:

The attempt to mount a file system with type reiserfs in IDE1 master, partition #4 (hda4) at /test2 failed.

You may resume partitioning from the partitioning menu.

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Ace Suares (acesuares) wrote :

When installation fails, and above error crops up, you can 'continue' or 'go back'. Botrh have the same effect: the installer exits without warning.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

At present you need to use the alternate install CD instead. This is also bug 44609.

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