LL 2.0 install on AMD A6/A88 machine W/RAID 1 - LL Installer Crashes

[rentwist]

Thinking I am going to need to boot from live USB and start over after implementing mdadm (will it be preserved with a fresh LL install afterwards?).  There is quite a bit more to it than what I read up until now led me to believe:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-creat...ne-arrays/