Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Using a DMRAID Device
I am getting older. Once I was jumping in to the hell of alpha packages to use a new distribution. Now I found myself waiting for the Beta at least. Jaunty Jackalope Beta has been announced a fews days ago and it is downloadable for all variants of Ubuntu. Hooraaay, so far..
I am using an Asus G50vt. It is a wonderful laptop with many features. It also includes Intel’s fake raid and I use it to stripe two internal disks.
I upgraded my Intrepid Ibex using “update-manager -d” command, the recommended way from Ubuntu. It oversimplifies the whole distribution upgrade. It activates the propoer repositories, downloads and installs packages, but with a single dirty problem.
The version of dmraid in the Jaunty Jackalope Beta is now rc15-4 and it does not recognize Intel RAIDs. Therefore, initrd is unable to activate the volume. The solution is to download the latest version (currently rc15-6) from Jaunty repositories along with dependencies and install it. Installation will update the initrd image so you do not have to do it. To boot and access the system, you can use the alternate install cd Strangely, it will recognize those volumes but not your own dmraid.
Now you have your volume again..
