[02:03] <TumbleWeed1> Can I ask an installer problem question here?
[02:53] <NCommander> cjwatson, +1 on topic change :-)
[03:57] <shtylman> heh
[19:52] <shtylman> evand: cjwatson_: ive started moving things around and trying to merge oem-config and ubiquity :)... man... I think I need a shield and broadsword to fight this beast...
[19:53] <Omahn> Hello everyone. I have a problem with a preseeded install of 8.04.2 with RAID1, it fails at the update-grub step. Same with Intrepid. But not with Jaunty. Does anyone know what's changed in relation to Grub in Jaunty? (In the hope that it might give a clue how to fix 8.04.2!)
[19:55] <Omahn> A bit more background. I have a physical server (a Sun X4100 M2) with two SATA disks, I'm creating two RAID1 arrays, md0 for swap and md1 for /. The preseed works fine on a VM with a similar setup (2 SCSI disks) but not the physical box. It's very odd..
[20:11] <shtylman> If I can remember right.../boot needs to be a separate partition
[20:12] <shtylman> Omahn: ^
[20:12] <shtylman> ive done raid1 setups before and every time ive had to make /boot be a separate partition (can't remember if I raided that parition or not) ... I think I did
[20:14] <Omahn> And not raid1? (for /boot)
[20:15] <shtylman> Omahn: can't recall it was a long time ago...but I think I still did raid1 for boot...it just had to be separate for some reason
[20:15] <Omahn> Thanks, I'll give it a whirl now :-)
[20:15] <Omahn> Fingers crossed..
[20:15] <shtylman> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID
[20:15] <shtylman> Omahn: ^ take a look at that...it give some tips and reasons about the /boot partition
[20:17] <Omahn> That seems to suggest its ok (not having a seperate /boot) so long as you're using RAID1.
[20:17] <Omahn> I'll give it a try anyway, only takes a few minutes.
[20:47] <Omahn> shtylman: I think that's worked (moving /boot to another raid1 device). It's certainly finished going through d-i, although the syslog doesn't mention the installation of grub to hd1 like I believe it should. I'll have to wait until I get physical access to the box next week to see if it has or hasn't installed to the second disk. Looks promising though! Thanks.
[20:48] <shtylman> Omahn: glad to hear :)
[20:49] <Omahn> Actually, I might be able to disable the disk in the bios to test it.. :-)
[21:08] <Omahn> shtylman: Works *perfectly* - thanks for your help.
[21:08] <shtylman> Omahn: no prob