While trying to install Ubuntu 10.04.1 & 10.04.2 with Software RAID using drives over 1TB, that have already had an install on them once, i keep running into problems.
First the partitioner kept putting 1M of free space at the beginning and end of the drives, no matter what I tried, manual or automatic partitioning. Finally I booted up in the Live CD and ran gparted to create the partitions starting at the very beginning of the drives. A little leftover free space at the end is fine. But as far as i know the boot partition needs to be at the very beginning of the drive or it won’t boot. Even in spite of partitioning them like that, the install still fails with a fatal error when it tries to install the grub boot loader.
Tomorrow I’m going to just try installing grub onto this system from the Live CD and see if it can boot without another whole reinstall. It seems like Ubuntu’s partitioning program is very finicky and prone to mishap if, like me, you aren’t 100% sure of what you’re doing! It just doesn’t seem to be able to do a fresh install on a used disk, the disk needs to first be re-partitioned elsewhere.
From searching around, it seems like this problem has happened for a LOT of people. And what’s the solution? Try 4 times and it works!?
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