Peter Jones wrote:[Strange your reply made it to the mailman archive, but I don't seem to have received it via the list, so this "hand pasted" reply will probably lose it's position in the reply chain]
Hrm. That looks like an error I thought was fixed -- do you have more than one set of raid metadata on the disks, with one set pointing to drives that don't exist?
Do you mean metadata from Intel matrix raid setup, or some remnants of metadata from software raid?
(or even just one set, if it's pointing to some non-existing drive)
I had a working software raid on the disks, didn't wipe them, changed bios from SATA=AHCI to SATA=RAID, went into the bios raid config and created a split config 100GiB mirror plus 300GiB stripe
That seemed to be enough to blow away the old contents of the drives, grub didn't even load, machine tried to PXE boot, so I proceeded to install ...