Ubuntu with RAID 1 and multidisk errors
I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu Server to the latest LTS and it wouldn’t boot anymore. Did I mention that it was a software RAID 1, and probably not the most intelligent decision on my part since I had to manually set up the RAID 1. I had all the data backed up and decided to do a fresh install, since I had made a mess of the system over the last couple of years and this would be a good chance to re-install and get everything set up the way I wanted. Following this post and this post, I installed Ubuntu but ran into numerous errors when trying to re-partition and delete multidisks that existed from the previous install. I was headed nowhere fast with an unusable system…
I found this forum thread, re-booted and ran some commands. They seemed to work for the most part, however I got errors on the –zero-superblock. I tried the install again, and low and behold, the multidisks were gone and I was able to re-partition and create new multidisks. I am going through the install right now and hopefully wont run into any additional errors. Then its on to getting Apache, PHP, SVN, MySQL all set up. Need to decide if I want to compile PHP rather than install from apt-get…