barraclm
September 11th, 2013, 12:07 AM
My PC has 6 drives.
/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd are 750Gb SATA drives. Each drive has one partition filling the complete drive (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, and /dev/sdd1). These partitions have data on from my previous installation of Ubuntu 12.04.
/dev/sdj is a 73GB SAS drive. It has 2 partitions: /dev/sdj1 for the OS and /dev/sdj2 for swap.
/dev/sdi is a 73GB SAS drive which is currently unused but will eventually be a RAID1 array with/dev/sdj.
All partitions are EXT4 (except for the swap).
I am trying to install 13.04 from a Live CD. It boots and I select Try Ubuntu. I then get a terminal window and install mdadm. I follow this with mdadm --assemble --scan which creates /dev/md1 from/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, and /dev/sdd1.
[Gparted now shows an array called /dev/md1 with a single partition called /dev/md1p1 and I can mount/dev/md1 on /mnt and see my data (after which I umount it). However when I am installing (see below) the partition on array /dev/md1 is shown as /dev/md1.]
I then close the terminal window and run the install. When I get to the choice of what I want to do I chose "Something Else". I change /dev/md1 (the partition) to EXT4, mount point /home and NO format. I change /dev/sdj1 to EXT4, mount point / and format. I select /dev/sdj for boot loader.
All appears to work fine and I reboot when asked. However, all is not fine! Ubuntu starts to load but gives me the message the disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present. My options are to Continue to Wait (for ever), Skip mounting (which brings up a login prompt but when I login it returns me to the login prompt) or Manual recovery (which drops me into a shell where I try to install/load mdadm but can't as mdadm, and postfix cannot be authenticated and if I press on regardless it fails saying"Something wicked happened resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-11 - System Error)"
Help Please!
/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd are 750Gb SATA drives. Each drive has one partition filling the complete drive (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, and /dev/sdd1). These partitions have data on from my previous installation of Ubuntu 12.04.
/dev/sdj is a 73GB SAS drive. It has 2 partitions: /dev/sdj1 for the OS and /dev/sdj2 for swap.
/dev/sdi is a 73GB SAS drive which is currently unused but will eventually be a RAID1 array with/dev/sdj.
All partitions are EXT4 (except for the swap).
I am trying to install 13.04 from a Live CD. It boots and I select Try Ubuntu. I then get a terminal window and install mdadm. I follow this with mdadm --assemble --scan which creates /dev/md1 from/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, and /dev/sdd1.
[Gparted now shows an array called /dev/md1 with a single partition called /dev/md1p1 and I can mount/dev/md1 on /mnt and see my data (after which I umount it). However when I am installing (see below) the partition on array /dev/md1 is shown as /dev/md1.]
I then close the terminal window and run the install. When I get to the choice of what I want to do I chose "Something Else". I change /dev/md1 (the partition) to EXT4, mount point /home and NO format. I change /dev/sdj1 to EXT4, mount point / and format. I select /dev/sdj for boot loader.
All appears to work fine and I reboot when asked. However, all is not fine! Ubuntu starts to load but gives me the message the disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present. My options are to Continue to Wait (for ever), Skip mounting (which brings up a login prompt but when I login it returns me to the login prompt) or Manual recovery (which drops me into a shell where I try to install/load mdadm but can't as mdadm, and postfix cannot be authenticated and if I press on regardless it fails saying"Something wicked happened resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com:http' (-11 - System Error)"
Help Please!