[Bug 1164831] Re: Installing on MSI motherboard 870U-G55 with fake raid controller. One 1.2TB and one 2.8TB Raid partition. Installed to 1.2TB. Failed to install boot loader. Critical error.er

[whebert1@msn.com]

Thanks for your help.

It is still difficult to deal with the issues that come up during a
RAID'd install. Ubuntu 12.10 did fine, but Dream Studio seems dead even
after the successful boot repair pointing at it. It logs into the splash
gui, but gets stuck on the print spooler, for some reason.

Great speeds from the hard drives, and one solid seeming install of
Ubuntu, so I am happy about that. The rest I can do later and hobby
around with.

Hopefully I dont break my good OS in the process...

** Attachment added: "Good reason to RAID."
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Title:
  Installing on MSI motherboard 870U-G55 with fake raid controller. One
  1.2TB and one 2.8TB Raid partition. Installed to 1.2TB. Failed to
  install boot loader. Critical error.er

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  There is VERY poor documentation as to how to accomplish such things
  in Ubuntu. I could not even find a definitive answer as to whether one
  Linux install can share a mdadm created partition and the accompanying
  data with a second one. It appears to not be possible, which is why I
  wanted to go back to my fake raid.

  I get that it is not Ubuntu's fault that my hardware isn't configged
  to work with it, but it is the software's fault that the softraid
  solution offered can't support a data partition to be accessed by
  several installs.

  Linux-Secure-Remix 12.10 28feb2013

  Terminal reports:
   "~$ apt-cache policy pkgname
  N: Unable to locate package pkgname"

  I expected Ubuntu to see my fake RAID partition and install to it
  properly.

  Instead the install reported a fatal error.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.12.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.328
  Date: Thu Apr  4 22:12:09 2013
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=unknown
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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