DarkMorford
August 15th, 2012, 05:20 AM
Greetings, all—
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 x64 on my new system. The motherboard is an ASUS P8B-M and has an LSI MegaRAID Software RAID controller onboard. I have two 500 GB hard drives hooked up, and I've used the BIOS utility to put them in a mirrored (RAID 1) configuration.
When the Ubuntu installer reaches the Detect Disks stage, it offers me a choice that I've never encountered doing single-disk installs, for obvious reasons:
One or more drives containing Serial ATA RAID configurations have been found. Do you wish
to activate these RAID devices?
Regardless of whether I select Yes or No here, the partitioner starts up and presents another unusual menu.
This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount points. Select a
partition to modify its settings (file system, mount point, etc.), a free space to create
partitions, or a device to initialize its partition table.
Configure iSCSI volumes
Undo changes to partitions
Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
Selecting the iSCSI option then prompts me for an IP address and port to connect to, and here I'm stumped. How do I get the installer to recognize the RAID array and partition it as usual? Is there a Linux equivalent to Windows' infamous "F5 drivers" I need to be aware of?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 x64 on my new system. The motherboard is an ASUS P8B-M and has an LSI MegaRAID Software RAID controller onboard. I have two 500 GB hard drives hooked up, and I've used the BIOS utility to put them in a mirrored (RAID 1) configuration.
When the Ubuntu installer reaches the Detect Disks stage, it offers me a choice that I've never encountered doing single-disk installs, for obvious reasons:
One or more drives containing Serial ATA RAID configurations have been found. Do you wish
to activate these RAID devices?
Regardless of whether I select Yes or No here, the partitioner starts up and presents another unusual menu.
This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount points. Select a
partition to modify its settings (file system, mount point, etc.), a free space to create
partitions, or a device to initialize its partition table.
Configure iSCSI volumes
Undo changes to partitions
Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
Selecting the iSCSI option then prompts me for an IP address and port to connect to, and here I'm stumped. How do I get the installer to recognize the RAID array and partition it as usual? Is there a Linux equivalent to Windows' infamous "F5 drivers" I need to be aware of?