Problem with software RAID/LVM

[Hans Omli]

The issue appears to be debian bug # 377391.  Please apply the patch to the
next LTS point release.  Having to do a patch myself before even finishing
an install is highly annoying... even moreso for an LTS release.


On 3/15/07, Hans Omli <hansomli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Ubuntu 6.06.1 Server on a machine with two SATA
> drives.  The basic layout I'm looking for:
>
> /dev/md0   /boot        ext3     100MB
> /dev/md1   VolGroup00   LVM PV   max
>
> I created 'physical volume for RAID' partitions on both drives, created
> the MD devices, set md0 to ext3 for /boot, and set md1 to 'physical volume
> for LVM'.  Then I selected 'Configure the Logical Volume Manager' and
> '<Yes>' to write the changes to disk.  At this poing, I get the following
> error:
>
> Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/md/1p1 --
> Invalid argument.  This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to
> /dev/md/1p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any
> way before rebooting.
>
> Error!!!
>
> For kicks, I tried installing in a VMware virtual machine set up with two
> SCSI disks.  Same error.  Thus, this appears to be a bug in the installer.
> Any workarounds to get a system up with mirrored disks containing a boot
> partition and remaining space for LVM volumes?
>
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