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Bug#810102: installation-reports: Graphical Installer does not initialize initrd with LVM and MDADM



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Hi,

el_es <el.es.cr@gmail.com> (2016-01-06):
> So I ran in the live system terminal:
> 
> sudo apt-get install mdadm
> sudo apt-get install lvm2
> 
> which restored my swraid matrix and lvm pv/lv's to view (/proc/mdstat populated and /dev/mapper/myrootdevice showing)
> 
> after which I chroot'd to the to-be root device (bind-mounting /proc, /dev and /sys before that)
> and ran update-initramfs -u and dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc (grub installed to mbr of each physical member of the md array)
> 
> Now after unmounting the bind mounts and the root device, the system was able to boot correctly up.
> 
> This I'm being told is NOT as it usually happens on the installer invoked from boot menu 
> (either from live distribution or from netinstall)

I don't have much insight as far as installing from a live system goes,
but having to go through these extra steps seems strange to me. Is there
any chance you could share the installer's syslog, which should be
located under /var/log/installer in the installed system?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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