Funny thing is 10.10, 11.4, and 11.10 were fine with the array's in place once 12.4 made the rounds it fell over. If i knew more about grub and udev i could probably bring it back up. On Oct 18, 2012 7:28 PM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: > Hmmmm, that should have been good enough, but I guess they could have put > it in the middle. It's not unheard of. > > Like I said, something is triggering that device mapper on your drive, so > there has to be something on the drive that it likes. > > Brian Cluff > > On 10/18/2012 07:04 PM, Stephen wrote: > >> Generally i run the quick zero which is the first and last 300mb i hiess >> the next step is finding a home for the data and the 10+ hours to zero >> the long way. >> >> On Oct 18, 2012 6:45 PM, "Brian Cluff" > > wrote: >> >> Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first >> part. Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many of >> the raid superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it would >> still be catching them if you haven't done the whole thing. >> >> I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is >> trying to grab hold of it. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote: >> >> well 4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid. >> the one >> i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do >> still >> have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that. >> >> odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed >> there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take >> a 2nd >> look but its is really puzzling. >> >> I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured >> out >> how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up. >> i may >> leave it ghetto and just use bios. >> >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff > > wrote: >> >> The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the >> drive leads me >> to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least >> configured by your >> raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on >> it that is >> messing up everything. >> You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before >> things will start to >> behave correctly. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> >> On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote: >> >> >> I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu >> to boot right >> now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing >> out what is >> going on. >> >> I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid >> chipset >> (SB710) however i am not intending to install to those >> drives the >> drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected >> single drive >> but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to >> even finish its >> boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback. >> >> The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: >> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for >> '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument >> - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid >> turned off in >> bios. just a single SATA HDD >> >> I get one of the two following errors if i have raid >> disks attached >> >> A similar entry as above comes up or i get >> udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: >> No Such file or >> directory >> >> the most promising option i have so far is booting with >> nodmraid but >> it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my >> CDrom devices >> >> This is rather perplexing overall. >> >> Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected >> running >> windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd >> but it either >> is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it >> really does >> not like that port. >> >> Anyone have any thoughts? >> >> >> ------------------------------**__--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.__phoe**nix.az.us >> >> > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az._**_us/mailman/listinfo/plug-__* >> *discuss >> > discuss > >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**__--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.__phoe**nix.az.us >> >> > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az._**_us/mailman/listinfo/plug-__**discuss >> >> > >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >