While trying to install Ubuntu on an old hard drive I started encountering problems using the Ubiquity installer. I was able to complete the installation using the alternative CD with dmraid (SATA or Fake RAID) disabled. After tracing the problem to the old drive having once been used in a BIOS RAID Array I next had to search for a means to removing the RAID information from the drive meta-data with out losing or destroying any data.
Before You Start
Take a complete backup for the drive! When I ran this process everything work for me correctly and I did not lose any data, however I do not want responsibility if something goes wrong for you, please, take a backup first!
Removing RAID Metadata from your device
- 1 Start the Ubuntu Live CD
- 2 Open a terminal window
- 3 Find the device path you wish to remove the RAID Metadata from, in most cases this will be /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc etc..
- 4 Type the following command `sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/name_of_your_disk`
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