Comment 35 for bug 527401

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Sergei Vorobyov (svorobyov) wrote :

One of the issues ("too large" 2.7gb raid the installer refuses to create) is related to/same as

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543838

I stupidly made a remote update (kernel included) with reboot, and the system did not come up.
Apparently, kernel updates modify MBR. Now I am locked from my server, so my logs will be delayed until
Monday.

What would be better: configure SATA disks as IDE or AHCI?

The best, I think, is to add a small IDE disk to boot from (rather than booting from raid). This will never fail.