RAID-1 setup should install two boot partitions

Bug #1902287 reported by Peter Folk
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Dan Bungert
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Bug Description

When installing ubuntu server, I always want and recommend RAID-1 since hard drive failure is one of the most frequent problems with servers. The server installer supports this but doesn't end up with a fully redundant setup, because it doesn't (by default) create a second boot partition on the 2nd hard drive, so if the first drive dies your data will be safe but the server won't be bootable. This can be worked around without too much problem, but should really be handled in the installer so that people who don't think about this issue don't end up with a non-bootable system.

https://calvin.me/install-ubuntu-18.04-on-raid1 has instructions on accomplishing the goal manually; I would expect implementation within the installer to have a similar outcome

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Peter Folk (pfolk-launchpad) wrote :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1817066 suggests that subiquity supports installing two EFI system partitions (ESPs), but I did not find that functionality when I was looking for it.

My suggestion with this bug report is that such should be the default behavior when setting up a system with RAID-1 (which in turn perhaps should be the default when you're installing on a system with two similarly-sized hard drives...).

In the mean time I'll look again for where subiquity supported multiple ESPs, or if someone knows how that is done they might point me and others in the right direction...

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1715/revisions/1761/info is listed as a test that's supposed to pass for all server image releases. But as written, it only works if the disk you remove is the second disk, not the first.

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1902287

tags: added: iso-testing
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Dan Bungert (dbungert) wrote :

Manual test instructions being updated to show the process of marking each disk bootable. Something more automatic in Subiquity would also be nice.

Dan Bungert (dbungert)
Changed in ubuntu-manual-tests:
assignee: nobody → Dan Bungert (dbungert)
status: New → In Progress
Dan Bungert (dbungert)
Changed in ubuntu-manual-tests:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Dan Bungert (dbungert)
Changed in ubuntu-manual-tests:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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