Public bug reported: I just finished installing a freshly downloaded jaunty alternate install cd using mdadm partitions in linux as a dual-boot with windows, leaving windows in it's factory-fresh "fakeraid" partition(s). The only difficult part was getting rid of dmraid.
I first shrank the windows partitions. Using the alternate cd, i set up root on a mdadm partition. Everything as expected. Windows booted fine after it fsck'd itself. But linux dropped to the initramfs busybox with the now-familiar error about "no root found, try waiting, etc." upon first boot. Using a livecd, i was able to boot, install mdadm, activate my root, mount it and then /boot on top of it, chroot into it, mount sys, proc, and dev, and then apt-get remove dmraid. Finally, i had to uninstall and re-install mdadm to purge dmraid from initramfs ( see discussion here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534274 ). Windows "fakeraid" and linux mdadm are now peacefully coexisting. It's not clear to me if the core pathology is in dmraid, or in what the installer puts into initramfs. Alternately, being able to pass "nodmraid" as a boot argument would help. ** Affects: dmraid (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: initramfs mdadm -- Dual-boot install using mdadm root fails to boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392510 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
