Problem installing Raid + LVM system on new Dell T5500
I have a new Dell T5500 with two SATA disks (and a Dell Raid controller). The BIOS is set to revert to ATA disks if the
'hardware' Raid signature is not detected.
I want to install testing with one large software Raid 1 partition as the physical drive for the LVM, (which will have a root and home partition)
on it.
The first time I installed, everything went well but on a subsequent re-boot (and probably after some updates) the system failed to
boot with no /dev/md* devices created (so the LVM couldn't be mounted)
(I also tried having the root partition in it's own raid partition, with the same results.)
There seem to be some bug reports about 2.6.30 having problems with the fakeroot check (dmraid) blocking the mdraid detect.
Stable uses 2.6.26 (which is before the reported problem) but that installer only wants to allow lilo and not grub2, which is needed
for the configuration I desire.
Anyone know of a work around to get this system running? (and what changed after my first install?)
Stuart
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