On 17 July 2014 23:11, Dima Veselov <kab...@lich.phys.spbu.ru> wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Bug was caught on preseeding Debian 7.6.0/i386, but I beleive it will > work for any other installation on dmraid enabled box. In my case > dmraid=true was added to kernel options of latest netboot kernel. > > Installer insert dmraid module and create device, say /dev/mapper/asr_raid > When partitions are created this device split into /dev/mapper/asr_raidp1 > asr_raidp2 and others. > > I have two v60x servers with AIC-7902 HostRAID and they behave different. > > In the real kernel booting devices will be named /dev/mapper/asr_raid1 > asr_raid2 and others. (without p). So initramfs will fail to boot if > d-i will use device names as boot names. this is first bug and it is > most serious. As a workaround I used ln -s asr_raid2 asr_raidp2, > booted, refreshed fstab and update-grub. > > On the other server d-i used UUIDs as boot names and it fail to load > because kernel find and link /dev/s* devices to UUID devices, then > load dmraid, which make sd devices busy and initramfs fail to load > root (by the way it will still has asr_raidp device in resume > environment variable). As a workaround I edited grub boot list, > booted, edited fstab and update-grub. This is bug number two. > > Server intallations differs: first used dmraid=true in kernel boot > options, second had 'd-i disk-detect/dmraid/enable boolean true' > in preseed file. Don't know if it make sense. > > Also initramfs complain about dm_raid45 module and I don't know > if its a bug number three or not. >
I believe both of these problems (wrong enumeration & dm_raid45 module) can be solved by me uploading newer version of dmraid into Debian. I still hold ITA on that package and should act upon it. After it lands in unstable & testing, a minimal stable backport can be provided. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUiSriAVbfEiZvHomHWPFpkQoYDdE-M=qwvqwn5j2qj...@mail.gmail.com
