Comment 29 for bug 568050

Hey Phillip. Thanks so much for your help on this, and I will definitely try the workaround. Just one comment though, and please know this is not directly aimed at you Phillip as you've been nothing but helpful, but rather Ubuntu as a whole. As stated above, CentOS, Fedora, and OpenSuse all installed on my fakeraid out of the box with no workarounds, and while I honestly feel neither of those distributions can even somewhat compare to Ubuntu, it seems that Ubuntu is shortchanging users when it comes to fakeraid. In other words, if after the last 3 current distributions we are still having to use workarounds with fakeraid, does that mean it's going to always be that way? I may be wrong, but I don't think fakeraid has ever worked out of the box in Ubuntu. Is this just not a big enough priority for Ubuntu? And as for people who are using fakeraid and may be willing to change from Windows to Ubuntu, I would imaging the first time they discover they can't dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu without what might be a difficult workaround for them to implement depending on their knowledge of linux, they may just give up and go to another distribution which in the end hurts Canonical.

Another thing to note is that the version of CentOS i tried was released in 2007, and still successfully detected and installed on the array. It's hard to swallow that in 2010 Ubuntu still hasn't gotten there.

If this was an old or outdated technology, I could almost understand, but you can hardly find a current motherboard now that doesn't implement fakeraid, and regardless of whether linux software raid is better than fakeraid, fakeraid has its merits too, and I'm sure is used very often as it can be setup much quicker than linux software raid.

That's just my 2 cents, but again I appreciate everything you're doing to try and help us with this. Thanks.