Ubuntu
partman-base package

  1. Bug #569900
  2. Comment #71

Comment 71 for bug 569900

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Guido Scalise (guido-scalise) wrote : Re: mount: mounting /dev/md0 on /root/ failed: Invalid argument

After an entire day lost trying to install 10.04.1 LTS on a brand new Dell PowerEdge R210 with two 500Gb drives, I found this bug report and followed Thomas Krause workaround (creating the last partition with 100Mb less, thus leaving 100Mb unused) and was finally able to boot.

I can't believe such a gross bug went released. An entire day of work lost.

It should also be noted that during installation, grub offers to automatically install on one of the disks' MBR (/dev/sda in my case), when the correct thing to do would be to install it on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb