Comment 36 for bug 527401

I repeated the installation experiment twice, this time with 3 SATA disks on AHCI (yesterday
they were on IDE):

1. with 10.04-beta2-server-amd64

2. with the daily server-amd64 (18/4/2010)

getting basically the same results for /boot on raid1.

After 1) the system booted once but stopped booting after the update
After 2) the system would not boot at all.

I am attaching the partman and syslog from /var/log/installer for 2)

I have to say that the Ubuntu rescue is indecent: no file completion in the shell
no history, cannot get back to the previous command, even no ssh and scp (to send logs),
briefly, pre-msdos style.

The partitioner still:

1. complains about "too big" partition table for a 2.7TB raid0 of 3 0.9TB chunks
2. leaves "unusable" space in the end of every partition
3. makes odd rounding in the sizes of partitions you request (you ask 129MB, it makes 127.8mb instead of 129 in one of 3 identical disks)
4. failed to create one of the raid1 with 2 active and one spare: does not give an option (does not see) to pick the spare; it actually sees it in the sequel.

The installer also reports an error when you try to pick the cloud packages.
All this makes the installation pretty annoying.