[Bug 205384] Re: [hardy] installer failure with existing RAID+LVM setup

[Phillip Susi]

8.04 has reached end of life.  Have you had this problem with 12.04 or
later?


** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  [hardy] installer failure with existing RAID+LVM setup

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The existing setup is:

  Quad G5, two SATA disks, various partitions (/boot etc...) directly there, one big
  MD partition on each drive. Togegher, those form a RAID0. That RAID0 is then
  setup as an LVM PV into with 4 logical volumes (including root, /home, etc..)

  I busted the gutsy install there (bad manipulation on my part) so I'm trying to install
  Hardy using an alternate iso snapshot as of yesterday (Mars 22, 2008).

  When I do "configure RAID", then just "Finish", it detects the MD properly and shows
  it's LVM PV.

  When I do "configure LVM", it discovers all the LVs, I can then go back and see all my
  logical volumes in the list.

  I set their filesystem and mount points, so far so good, then I do "finish partitionning",
  at which points things go bonkers:

   - First it says it will have to write the RAID 0 partition map to disk (despite the fact
  that I didn't change a thing to do).

   - Then it complains that the kernel ioctl failed (invalid argument iirc) and I'll have to
  reboot. I choose "continue" as the partition map hasn't changed, so it should all be
  fine.

   - Nothing happens. The installer screen is empty and nothing happens

  Now if I try to go to the other VT to get some logs etc... I get nothing there, just black
  screen on a black background. The cusor blinks fine and move, but it looks like somewhat
  the installer is setting the text color of the other console as black on black !

  It -seems- that it works the very first time I switch VT and only gets in that black/black
  state on subsequent switches, thus I will try to use that to see if I can get some logs
  though it might be useful to guide me (that is tell me where to look for useful info).

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