Lucid Server - Won't Boot from Software RAID

[Antimatter47]

Hello all,

I'm trying to install Lucid server (64 bit) and I'm having trouble getting it to boot from software RAID. The hardware is an old Gateway E-4610D (1.86GHz Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 2 500GB HDs).

If I install on a single HD, it works fine, but if I set up RAID1 as described here, the install completes fine, but on reboot this is what I get:

mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/***uuid snipped*** on /root failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init found.  Try passing init= bootarg.

...Followed by a BusyBox prompt. I'm not a complete Linux newbie, but I have absolutely no idea where to go from here.

When I set up the RAID using the ubuntu installer, I created identical main and swap partitions on each of the two drives (all four are set as primary), made sure the bootable flag was on on the two main partitions, then created a RAID1 out of the two main partitions, and another RAID1 out of the two swap partitions.

In searching the forums, I've seen a couple other posts about this same problem, but no solutions yet. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Stason]

Check this out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1360445

[Antimatter47]

Check this out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1360445

It looks like this is just about fakeraid. Is it also applicable to regular software RAID?

[Antimatter47]

Anyone?

[c600g]

I was not even able to complete installation, as grub could not install itself.

I posted a message about this a few days ago, and no one responded. Perhaps this bug is applicable?

[morrty11]

Ran into the same issue yesterday. I have two 500GB drives I setup software RAID on and then proceeded to install Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit server. When the install completed and it popped out the CD and rebooted I got the No init found busy box error.

[Antimatter47]

I thought I might have been doing something wrong with the RAID setup, so I tried the exact same configuration with debian lenny, and it worked fine. This leads me to believe that it is in fact a bug, not user error.

Is there any way to fix this? Are the ubuntu install CD images ever updated? (If I download the iso again in a couple of months, is there a chance that this would be fixed?)

[Caveman2010]

I spent two days in a similar problem with hardware RAID. I went back to 9.10 and it works fine.

[pdk]

I also have the same problem. Installed grub using a rescue disk to the mbr
When the system boots
>grub
>find /vmlinuz
(hd0,0)
(hd1,0)
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz
boot

can't find device bad block ....
I will create a bug report

[mutrax]

Been there, fixed that.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=mutrax

fixed it by doing the partitioning with the 8.04 server install disk, and then installing lucid on the 8.04 crated MD's.... Guess the partitioner from lucid has a bug.

Regards,
Ed