[Bug 573618] Re: Installer does not detect hard drive partitions

[Mauricio Mora Meza]

Hahahaha!
Being Aug.2013 and this problem/bug remains the same :D
openSUSE installs easily in that hdd with raid, but it does not detect any windows to dual boot.
Ubuntu's 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04 just do not see any hdd/partition. Really sad. I will have to backup Windows and try to remove/deactivate RAID.

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Title:
  Installer does not detect hard drive partitions

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I tried installing Ubuntu 10.04 but the installer does not detect any hard drive partition. In /var/log/user.log I noticed the following line:
  ------------
  ... ubuntu activate-dmraid: Serial ATA RAID disk(s) detected. If this was bad, boot with 'nodmraid'.
  ------------

  So I rebooted with the nodmraid option selected. Unfortunately, the installer still did not detect any hard drive partition. The messages in /var/log/user.log now read:
  ------------
  ... ubuntu activate-dmraid: Serial ATA RAID disk(s) detected. If this was bad, boot with 'nodmraid'.
  ... ubuntu activate-dmraid: Enabling dmraid support.
  ... ubuntu dmraid-activate: WARNING: dmraid disabled by boot option
  ------------

  So, basically, the system decided that my choice of 'nodmraid' was
  stupid and ignored it. I had to fire up KPackageKit and remove the
  dmraid and libdmraid packages so that the installer could detect my
  hard drive partitions.

  This bug is a regression since Ubuntu 9.04 where installation works
  out-of-the-box. Installation fails identically with Ubuntu 9.10 and
  Ubuntu 10.04.

  Here is the output of lspci on my system:

  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
  00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 02)
  00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
  00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
  00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
  00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
  00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
  00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
  00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)
  02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
  02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02)
  02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)

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