Installer crashes on it's startup

[rekiiky]

Guys help please with installer crashing (they redirected me here)

Calamares crashes on it's startup

[andreas85]

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[rekiiky]

All info is in my GitHub issue.

[megavolt]

Hello @rekiiky and welcome

I guess you didn’t wipe your HDD, which was part of Software RAID? Calamares still recognize that. It seems to crash because it cannot create a filesystem on /dev/md127, since the second disk is not there.

Wipe the signature, not only erase:

sudo wipefs --all /dev/sda

Then start over.

[rekiiky]

Thanks for the tip!
I came to the conclusion that /dev/md127 belongs to /dev/sdb, which in turn is a disk for Intel Rapid Start Technology (or something like that), which uses RAID in its operation.
As I understand it, this Technology is not needed at all in Linux?

[megavolt]

@rekiiky

As I understand it, this Technology is not needed at all in Linux?

Not needed, not supported. In the UEFI switch off RST or switch it to AHCI.

[rekiiky]

It is already turned off, but the RAID still remains

[megavolt]

As said. Wipe it

[rekiiky]

Wipe with all data and signatures?

[megavolt]

Yeah, if you wipe it, then it gets wiped, or do you need that RAID?

[rekiiky]

It In general, not needed I’ll go check it out now, hope it works, thanks !