mix raid/lvm in preseeding

[Christopher Chan]

Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:24:56AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> Does the installer of Ubuntu Hardy support mixed raid and lvm recipes
>> for preseeding?
> 
> Yes, most definitely. LVM and RAID are fully implemented in preseed.

Great! Any pointers to documentation on d-i commands?

> 
>> /me wants to put /boot on its own raid1 md device and then chuck the
>> rest of the available disk space of the disks into another raid1 md
>> device and then use that as the pv of a vg and then carve up that vg
>> into swap, /, /var and so on.
> 
> All of this is totally doable, however, a warning with /boot. Although
> you can do this, you MUST be running GRUB version 2 or newer, otherwise

Don't worry, that /boot md device will be formatted as 
ext2/ext3/reiserfs/whatever grub 0.9x supports.

> you'll have to use LILO, which means you'll lose usplash, among other
> things. If you still want GRUB, then /boot will need to be on a native
> ext2/ext3 partition.
> 
> 

/me has a bone with the alternative installer in Hardy that cannot seem 
to understand /boot on raid1 formatted as ext2. It does not get to 
actually using the md device assigned but instead stuffs /boot on the / 
lvm and of course, only offers me lilo as the boot loader.

I take it that is because some 'auto' code took over?