Installer fails on fakeraid / dmraid hardware
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
In Progress
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Low
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Clement Lefebvre |
Bug Description
Mint 9 / AMD64 / Gnome.
Issue 1
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The installer can not complete installation of Mint 9 on fakeraid / dmraid system on AMD motherboard set to raid 1. After running through the installer right to the end the error given reports that partitioning failed, but no clear reason is given.
Issue 2 (Very Probably Related To Issue 1)
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As another issue which is probably (but not proven to be) related, partitioning manually with gparted from the installer fails. To recreate this:
1) Run mint amd64 installer CD and boot into Gnome.
2) Don't use the installer yet, as partitioning will fail (maybe for the same reason?)
3) gksu gparted /dev/mapper/
4) make a partition and apply
Why Does it Fails
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The errors given by GParted clearly show the problem.
GParted expects first partition of /dev/pdc_caafahgcei to be called /dev/mapper/
After discussing this with the author of dmraid, it seems that this is likely due the dmraid being called thus by the installer:
dmraid ... -Pp ...
Workaround To Both Issues
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Running "dmraid -tay -d -vvv" reloads dmraid, which makes new devices /dev/mapper/
I attach the details of my correspondence with the author of dmraid.
Thank you for you efforts,
Andrew Nagi
Hi,
I ran into the same bug in Mint 10. So it is still existent...
Bye, Thomas