[Bug 1078407] Re: pdc fakeraid not recognized

[Guido van Loon]

I got an upgrade for util-linux and a few other things this time...
unfortunately nothing changed in regard to my system not booting...

blkid is still not giving me any output. Did you change the version
because it reports the same version as before.

however "sudo blkid" does give me results. After sudo blkid, just blkid
without sudo it also working...

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Title:
  pdc fakeraid not recognized

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  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!

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