Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 installation problems.

It appears that new Ubuntu 9.10 has a bug that may interfere with a smooth installation process normally offered by this distribution. Some SATA drives are not recognised by Ubuntu partitioning tool. These SATA drives however are visible via fdisk -l command or by gparted tool.

The problem appears to be caused by dmraid. Dmraid provides support for 'software RAIDs'. If normal LiveCD is used, then booting this CD and removing dmraid via synaptic is the easiest way to deal with this problem. After removing dmraid, installation can begin as per normal. Alternate installation CD allows "nodmraid" option, which can be accessed by pressing F6 at boot time.

Ubuntu 9.10 is now using "fourth extended file system" by default, speaking of which SMART-2009-11-08 is out. The new version provides "enhanced support for EXT4 file system".

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