Ubuntu GRUB installation failed

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I am currently in the process of setting up an Ubuntu server but I ran into a few problems… after setting up RAID 0 (two 160GB drives) I tried to install Ubuntu server 18.04.3 LTS but it failed while Installing GRUB

I tried "use entire disk and setup LVM" (because I wasn't sure how to set up the partitions)

I tried "use entire disk" too

The error message:

"Unable to install GRUB in /dev/mapper/Server–Name–vg–root
Executing '/dev/mapper/Server–Name–vg-root' failed. This is a fatal error."

I am not sure what that means

I use BIOS …

My motherboard is: Intel Server Board S3420GPLX

I configured RAID in BIOS…

here are some screenshots from the installation: link

they include:

  • the installer asking me to enable mdadm RAID containers

  • the installer asking me to enable ATA RAID devices

  • which disks I can select

  • error message

    (I am a newbie when it comes to Ubuntu and RAID…)

Edit:

I tried installing the Ubuntu desktop version of with LVM… and it worked … I have absolutely no idea why it won't install the server

Best Answer

I kind of fixed it because I thought I had to use the embedded RAID utility tool but I could just turn it off... maybe I will have a look at the software RAID