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partman-base package

  1. Bug #569900
  2. Comment #56

Comment 56 for bug 569900

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Mike Perry (mike.perry) wrote : Re: mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument

Wow, I thought I was going crazy until I saw this bug. Here is my setup:

Two identical 500G Seagate drives. I sliced each of them up into 3 partitions using the alternative installer.

sda1, sdb2 - 1G - raid1 as md0 for boot
sda2, sdb2 - 5G - swap
sda3, sdb3 - remaining space as prompted - raid1 as md1 for LVM

The install appears to go fine, in fact, I didn't really notice there was a problem until I examined my boot logs and found that my swap on sdb2 wasn't found. When inspecting the drives I found that I had sda1,2,3, but there were no partitions on sdb. Instead, I have md1p1,p2,p3.

I'm surprised the system was even working. I experimented with a few different configurations and got similar results.