I suggested putting the following patch into d-i just before the
release of lenny but never got an ack/nack. Since this issue is
still there, I'm thinking of putting the patch in now. Can some
partman experts comment on it?
* Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> [2009-01-06 16:56]:
> We have a partman check that ensures on some devices that the /boot
> partition is the 1st primary partition. Unfortunately this check
> fails when /boot is a RAID device, but it's actually valid for /boot
> to be a RAID1 device (as long as its physical partition is the 1st
> primary partition).
>
> There's currently no good way to map the RAID device to its physical
> partition to performs these checks, so I was thinking of applying a
> patch for lenny to skip the check if the /boot device is RAID1.
>
> OK to apply? (I don't think many users are affected by this, so this
> isn't crucial)
>
>
> Index: check.d/ext2_or_ext3_boot
> ===================================================================
> --- check.d/ext2_or_ext3_boot (revision 57101)
> +++ check.d/ext2_or_ext3_boot (working copy)
> @@ -60,6 +60,17 @@
> fi
>
> # The boot file system has to be the first primary partition
> +
> +# ... but for now don't run the check if /boot is on RAID1. Right now,
> +# there's no good way to map a RAID device to its physical partition
> +# and then run the checks on that partition (see #509799).
> +if echo $boot_path | grep -q "^/dev/md"; then
> + raid=${boot_path#/dev/}
> + if grep "^$raid" /proc/mdstat | grep -q " raid1 "; then
> + exit 0
> + fi
> +fi
> +
> part_num=$(echo "$boot_path" | sed -e 's/.*[^0-9]\+//')
> if [ "$boot_type" != primary ] || [ "$part_num" -ne 1 ]; then
> db_set partman/boot_not_first_partition true
> Index: debian/changelog
> ===================================================================
> --- debian/changelog (revision 57101)
> +++ debian/changelog (working copy)
> @@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
> partman-ext3 (56) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
>
> + [ Colin Watson ]
> * check.d/nomountpoint_ext3:
> - partman-ext3/no_mount_point is a boolean, not a select (thanks,
> Nicolas Valcárcel; LP: #256459).
>
> + [ Martin Michlmayr ]
> + * check.d/ext2_or_ext3_boot: when a RAID1 partition is used for /boot
> + don't check whether it's the 1st primary partition. There's no good
> + way to map a RAID partition to its physical partition at the moment.
> + (Works around #504397).
> +
> -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:56:13 +0000
>
> partman-ext3 (55) unstable; urgency=low
>
>
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> http://www.cyrius.com/
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http://www.cyrius.com/
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