Ubuntu Install RAID Drive Selection defaulted

[puleen]

Folks, I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 on a set of newly formatted drives.

I have 3 drives as follows:

1. 160GB SATA (Ubuntu)
2. 160GB SATA (unallocated)
3. 250GB SATA (NTFS)

I don't want to install RAID, want to do a JBOD type install.

Each time I try to install it gives me a screen which looks as follows:

http://www.imgsrc.com/thumbs/ubuntu1010.png (http://www.imgsrc.com/?v=ubuntu1010.png)

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I also want to install Windows 7 on a separate partition within drive #1.

Thanks,

[YesWeCan]

Hi. It looks like your drives were once part of a Windows RAID. You need to remove the RAID super-blocks.
In the live session, open a terminal and run
sudo fdisk -lu
to see the names of your drives
then run this for each drive, subtituting x for each drive letter
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdx


As an additional precaution you should disable all RAID options in your BIOS.

[puleen]

That seems to have done it. Once I install Windows on the second partition, I will see what happens and let you know.

The two drives no longer get detected as part of a RAID and do show up individually. :)

You are a savior! :)

[YesWeCan]

Good stuff. If everything is working please mark this as solved in Thread Tools.