{"id":811,"date":"2007-03-29T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/words-cannot-describe-the-pain\/"},"modified":"2013-12-29T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T04:21:59","slug":"words-cannot-describe-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/words-cannot-describe-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"words cannot describe the pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>that is the general experince of debian\/ubuntu, raid and LVM setups for \/ and \/boot and getting a working bootloader out of the installer&#8230;. grr&#8230; how come this NEVER works&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update:<\/strong> well, i now have a booting system&#8230; I even applied the updates, which fixed a few oddities with &#8220;Desktop Effects&#8221; (it&#8217;s called <em><strong>BLING<\/strong><\/em> dagnammit&#8230; i want to control my &#8220;Desktop Bling&#8221;&#8230; who on earth wants &#8220;desktop effects&#8221; when there&#8217;s the option of bling?). Unfortunately, the current kernel doesn&#8217;t boot at all&#8230; gets an oops suggesting running with irqpoll, which doesn&#8217;t help either. So back to the older kernel it is&#8230; and time to file a bug report. I think there&#8217;s a bug somewhere in the partitioner, LVM and RAID setup that gets mightily confused at some point that really ended up in a bad place. Now though, going through *very* carefully, I have grub booting off a RAID1 ext3 \/boot no problems&#8230; even all my other file systems have come up okay&#8230; urgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that is the general experince of debian\/ubuntu, raid and LVM setups for \/ and \/boot and getting a working bootloader out of the installer&#8230;. grr&#8230; how come this NEVER works&#8230;. update: well, i now have a booting system&#8230; I even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/words-cannot-describe-the-pain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-d5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":808,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/jbod-can-bite-you-and-ubuntu-704\/","url_meta":{"origin":811,"position":0},"title":"JBOD can bite you&#8230; (and Ubuntu 7.04)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-03-27","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so one of the disks in a JBOD (well... single LVM) has been on the way out (hopefully can recover some stuff off it... there's nothing completely important... but still). 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