dmraid 1.0.0.rc16

2009-11-26 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, I'm going to upload dmraid 1.0.0.rc16 (already in experimental) in unstable. The only relevant change for d-i is the SONAME bump, so now we have libdmraid1.0.0.rc16-udeb. Is it ok for you? Cheers, Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Please unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-8

2009-06-19 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, Could you unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-8 please? Cheers, Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Please unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-7

2009-05-03 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, Could you unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-7 please? Cheers, Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Please unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-6 (udebs)

2009-04-05 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, Could you unblock dmraid/1.0.0.rc15-6 please? Cheers, Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1

2009-02-16 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: On Monday 16 February 2009, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: Relevant changes for d-i: - Build dmraid shared library for both standard and udeb packages. It will likely be used in the future by udev. - Create new packages, libdmraid-dev, libdmraid1.0.0.rc15, libdmraid1.0.0.rc15

Re: dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1

2009-02-16 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Otavio Salvador ha scritto: Is the API/ABI so unstable that you're using the version on the library package name? I'd much prefer it packaged as: dmraid dmraid-udeb libdmraid-1.0 libdmraid-1.0-udeb libdmraid-dev According to Debian library packaging guide, the package name

Re: dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1

2009-02-16 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Otavio Salvador ha scritto: No objections from my side then. Ok, uploaded. Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1

2009-02-15 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, I'm going to upload dmraid 1.0.0.rc15-1 in unstable. Relevant changes for d-i: - Build dmraid shared library for both standard and udeb packages. It will likely be used in the future by udev. - Create new packages, libdmraid-dev, libdmraid1.0.0.rc15, libdmraid1.0.0.rc15-udeb respectively -

Bug#512838: Debian installer lenny RC

2009-01-24 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
retitle 512838 Do not show xen kernel reassign 512838 base-installer thanks Ciao, è opportuno scrivere il bug report in inglese, cercherò di tradurlo. mmc...@tiscali.it ha scritto: Al riavvio mi si presenta la schermata di GRUB, scelgo il kernel e grub si ferma dandomi il seguente

Please unblock dmraid 1.0.0.rc14-7

2009-01-24 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
for DM_DEVICE_CREATE, but also for +DM_DEVICE_REMOVE. (LP: #306275) + * [7f379ae] debian/control: Remove priority and section fields in the +binary package + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:15:53 +0100 + dmraid (1.0.0.rc14-6) unstable; urgency=low * debian/rules

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-11-12 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: Note that I'm working on a settings option for the installer that will make it a lot easier for users to select options such as dmraid and multipath (without requiring a boot parameter). Hi, is there any status update regarding dmraid=true boot parameters or your

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-11-12 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Christian Perrier ha scritto: I think we can now safely assume that this is delayed for squeeze and to be moved in the wished features list (and probably the release goals list). My first request was to add a simple line in build/boot/x86/f8.txt. Is this possible? Giuseppe. signature.asc

Please unblock dmraid 1.0.0.rc14-6

2008-11-09 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
, this not fix #411172 and the new dm-raid45 (not yet in Debian) is using the target that the dmraid code originally expected. -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:50:02 +0100 dmraid (1.0.0.rc14-5) unstable; urgency=low * debian/control: dmraid and dmraid-udeb should

Re: AMD64 Lenny install with dmraid (RAID5) fails

2008-10-29 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi Mark, Mark Bishop ha scritto: dmraid -s lists the set but when I try dmraid -ay -i I get ERROR: device-mapper target type raid45 not in kernel. Unfortunately this is a known bug [0], and a module will have to e included in the Debian kernel [1] to fix this properly. At this moment if you

Re: AMD64 Lenny install with dmraid (RAID5) fails

2008-10-29 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Mark Bishop ha scritto: Thank you for your response. I don't mind doing the the custom patched kernel[3], but is it possible to use the Debian installer (Lenny .iso) once I do build a patched kernel? You also have to build a debian image with a custom kernel:

Bug#488066: installation-reports

2008-10-26 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, Werquin Lucas ha scritto: Since the last update of dmraid, i have rebooted my server and still have a problem with the GRUB update. I still have to edit the first entry of the GRUB list to replace (nvidia) with (hd0,1) before booting. I'll edit the menu.lst file and wait the next

Bug#500079: Bug#497110: Missing root option for other detected Linux OS on dmraid

2008-09-25 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
grub-installer-1.35/debian/changelog --- grub-installer-1.34/debian/changelog2008-09-22 02:47:51.0 +0200 +++ grub-installer-1.35/debian/changelog2008-09-25 14:12:22.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +grub-installer (1.35) unstable; urgency=low + + [Giuseppe Iuculano

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-23 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: I've not tested os-prober functionality for dmraid. Tested, unfortunately root is empty: # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/mapper/sil_aiahbgbgaaaj1. title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-23 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Giuseppe Iuculano ha scritto: Tested, unfortunately root is empty: Hi, attached debdiff fixes the root detection, can you review it please? Giuseppe diff -Nru grub-installer-1.34/debian/changelog grub-installer-1.35/debian/changelog --- grub-installer-1.34/debian/changelog2008-09-22

freeze-exception for dmraid 1.0.0.rc14-4

2008-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
and added udev in dmraid Depends These changes do not affect the udeb and the existing support of dmraid in the installer. The debdiff in attachment. Giuseppe Iuculano. diff -u dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/debian/dmraid.udev dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/debian/dmraid.udev --- dmraid-1.0.0.rc14/debian/dmraid.udev

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: On Saturday 13 September 2008, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters for the install system (F8) Let's at least wait until we have dmraid working again... What do you think about enabling dmraid support by default and so removing

Bug#499482: Dmraid activation could possibly activate degraded arrays.

2008-09-18 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Luke Yelavich ha scritto: Package: disk-detect Version: 1.69 User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch intrepid ubuntu When disk-detect.sh attempts to activate dmraid arrays with dmraid -ay, there is the potential for degraded arras to be activated. If Debian happens

Bug#498838: Please set link priority to 100 for dmraid devmapper devices

2008-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
: Set link priority to 100 for devmapper devices that +have an UUID starting with DMRAID- for dmraid devmapper devices, to +prevent UUIDs being used to mount hard disk partitions rather than the +array itself. + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:57:38 +0200

Bug#497110: Bug#498838: Please set link priority to 100 for dmraid devmapper devices

2008-09-13 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
unblock 497110 by 498838 thanks Hi, Bastian Blank ha scritto: Please explain. I'm currently not able to oversee the consequences. Bastian # blkid /dev/mapper/sil_aiahbgbgaaaj5: TYPE=swap /dev/mapper/sil_aiahbgbgaaaj1: UUID=4f4ac281-bb5d-4c34-9437-65df0c203bbb TYPE=ext3 /dev/hda1:

Re: Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: The physical disks show as 4GB, but the (correctly detected) dmraid device is only 100.8MB in size, which is a bit small for actual use :-P I get the same if I use the raw images with qemu. Any ideas? You are right, also for hpt45x disk size is encoded in the .dat

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: changes merged for Lenny. This means the following actions are needed: - get an OK for the change in devicemapper from maintainer and RT - get an OK for the change in parted from RT (and maybe check that the patch will also get accepted upstream?) - get updated

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: On Sunday 07 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I've done some testing using Giuseppe's businesscard image in VirtualBox ... I was very surprised that you don't actually need BIOS support for dmraid. Apparently it really only scans the harddisks for some specific

freeze-exception for dmraid 1.0.0.rc14-3

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
from Ubuntu debian/dmraid-activate: Script to reformat the output of dmraid to be useful with udev (Do not install in udeb) * debian/initramfs/dmraid.initramfs-hook/dmraid: Added dmraid-activate, new udev rule needs it -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:51:38

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Giuseppe Iuculano ha scritto: I'm working on this, but it is not very simple for me. Approximately dmraid -rD generates three files, from this we can extrapolate metadata, and with a hex editor we can add the fake signature to the qemu/virtualbox drive Ok,this procedure seems to work for me

Re: Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: *.size is the disk size in sectors. hda_{0,1,2,3}_sil.dat are all identical, but there are some differences between .dat files for hda and hdb. *.offset files are numbers close to the end of the disk, so apparently the SATA RAID signature is saved 4 times near the end

Re: Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Giuseppe Iuculano ha scritto: reason to use the procedure you devised would be to generate disk images of a different size (80GB was a bit of a pain for the conversion from vbox to VirtualBox format for example). Uhmm, there are some unknown metadata sectors, I think this isn't possible

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
, which use device mapper. Libparted was +naming new partition nodes incorrectly, and not setting the UUIDs for +dmraid device nodes. (Closes: #497110) + * debian/patches/parted-dmraid.dpatch: Make sure that partition nodes for +dmraid devices are probed + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Otavio Salvador ha scritto: Yes. That is a great news. Sad that Ubuntu hasn't communicated with us to get this fixed on Debian. I'll take a look and prepare a parted upload with it. I merged all relative dmraid Ubuntu changes in: devmapper os-prober parted partman-auto partman-base

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: On Saturday 06 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: At first glance the patch also needs some cleanup. The .gitignore changes look like they are just noise and the actual changes are not really consistent regarding whitespace for example. Here's a cleaned-up version.

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
+++ partman-base-125+nmu1/debian/changelog 2008-09-06 16:56:57.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +partman-base (125+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * init.d/parted: Set the sataraid flag for dmraid arrays. + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 06 Sep 2008

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
. + * Merge from Ubuntu: debian/patches/parted-dmraid.dpatch: Patch to educate +libparted about dmraid arrays, which use device mapper. Libparted was +naming new partition nodes incorrectly, and not setting the UUIDs for +dmraid device nodes. (Closes: #497110) + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Ubuntu: debian/patches/parted-dmraid.dpatch: Patch to educate +libparted about dmraid arrays, which use device mapper. Libparted was +naming new partition nodes incorrectly, and not setting the UUIDs for +dmraid device nodes. (Closes: #497110) + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
. + + -- Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:23:55 +0200 + partman-auto (81) unstable; urgency=low [ Jérémy Bobbio ] diff -Nru partman-auto-81/lib/auto-shared.sh partman-auto-81+nmu1/lib/auto-shared.sh --- partman-auto-81/lib/auto-shared.sh 2008-08-25 21:01:13.0 +0200

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-05 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: Giuseppe: if you want to work around this bug to test dmraid support, you can do so by changing /lib/partman/active_partition/25divider/choices before you start partman: just make that script 'exit 0'. This would allow you to provide further details on the p in created

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-09-02 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: Unfortunately these don't help very much. What I think we need here is a full debug log for partman to see what was running at the time of the OOM. I suspect you somehow get into a loop. Please make sure you have started your ssh sessions _before_ starting partman

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-08-30 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
11:27 sil_aiahbgbgaaaj brw---1 root root 254, 1 Aug 30 11:27 sil_aiahbgbgaaaj1 brw---1 root root 254, 2 Aug 30 11:27 sil_aiahbgbgaaaj5 Giuseppe Iuculano signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-08-30 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: But another possibility is that you are just not following the correct procedure. Support for dmraid is far from perfect and things will *only* work if you follow the documented procedure. How did you do the partitioning? Did you *exactly* follow the instructions that

Bug#497110: boot loader installation failed when dmraid=true

2008-08-29 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/20080827-1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso This build finished at Wed Aug 27 07:45:39 UTC 2008. Date: Wed Aug 27

freeze-exception for dmraid 1.0.0.rc14-2

2008-07-31 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hello, Please consider an exception for dmraid 1.0.0.rc14-2 I think this version improve fakeraid support on debian-installer. It is 20 days old, this is the changelog. dmraid (1.0.0.rc14-2) unstable; urgency=low * Merge the following patch from Ubuntu (thanks to Luke Yelavich): +

RFS: dmraid (updated package)

2008-07-10 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dmraid/dmraid_1.0.0.rc14-2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Giuseppe Iuculano signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature