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" <brian@snaptek.com> 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" <brian@snaptek.com
<mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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 <brian@snaptek.com
        <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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?


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