Lucid LiveCD

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Since Karmic, I can't help but go Alternate. Desktop CD partition
>>> editor will find only one of my two disks.
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/461470
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/556225
>>
>> Not sure whether this will help with 556225 but 461470 looks like the
>> dmraid problem that came up a while ago.
>>
>> If you boot the live CD with "nodmraid" and uninstall dmraid before
>> installing Ubuntu, your disks will be detected singly.
>
> Regarding the issue I observed, it was just a question of detecting
> the hard drives properly (one SATA and one PATA) no raid needed. In my
> hardware (plain vanilla) at least, the specific Live CD partition
> manager (can't remember the name) fails since Karmic. It should be
> noted however, that GParted in the same CDs detects correctly the HW
> config and also the partition manager in the Alternate CDs, no
> parameters tweaking needed.

Sorry. I was commenting on the 461470 fakeraid problem not your
particular sata/pata case.