[Bug 1078407] [NEW] pdc fakeraid not recognized

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I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop on my old Dell Dimension 8300.
This box has a Promise Fasttrak raid controller a.k.a. softraid or
fakeraid.  It is setup with two identical drives in raid0, stiped.

I had a hard time getting the installer to run without errors. Did all kind of manual steps to make the installer complete.
I installed from a pendrive, booted the liveCD. Used dmraid -ay and gparted to partition the drive. Did nothing special with the partitions one swap and one root partition. The installer ends up grubbing my pendrive instead of my harddisk so I followed a manual to purge an reinstall grub2 on the correct disk here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099)

Now when I boot, the computer shows a graphical off-black screen (ubuntu
boot color???) and nothing happens. When I then reboot with
Ctrl+Alt+Delete a second time. I get GNU GRUB menu and I choose "Ubuntu,
with Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae". After a while I got thrown in busybox
because of the root device was not found: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-
uuid/8693f1c2-3eb1-41a4-ba10-3fbe860144a1 does not exist.

When I type "dmraid -ay" [Enter]
I see three messages like RAID set "pdc_ccgcdegci" was activated. 
Press Crtl+D the computer will continue to boot normally.

The next time I boot I need to reboot to get pass the off-black screen
and into the GNU Grub menu again.

I found bug report 941874, but I checked and the fixes described there seem to be in place on my machine...
I tried the steps described in "http://www.humans-enabled.com/2012/03/how-to-fix-ubuntu-1204beta-boot-problem.html" to no avail.

I'm new to the whole Ubuntu/linux thing and I just want my computer to
boot without manual intervention. Please help.

Thanx!

** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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pdc fakeraid not recognized
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