On Wednesday 06 October 2004 21:08, Hans van Zijst wrote: > Couldn't find a way to make installer create RAID arrays and use one of > them for LVM, so I did it myself. When I got to the point where I had > to partition the disks, I fired up a terminal, created the RAID arrays, > ran pvcreate, vgcreate and lvcreate and returned to the installer. The > partitioner happily detected the RAID arrays and logical volumes I had > just made, and everything installed just fine from there.
This is supported in the latest daily builds of the installer [1] and will be supported in the next release. [1] http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > At boot time, however, I get these messages (I installed 2 different > machines and got the same messages while booting): > > devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for /disc > devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to > parent for /disc devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could > not append to parent for /disc devfs_mk_dir: invalid > argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for /disc > devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to > parent for /disc > > I get 129 of these ones... After that, I get these: > > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev dm-0. > VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev dm-0. > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev dm-0. > VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev dm-0. > > ...which is correct, because I use JFS on my logical volumes (I don't > like the idea of unmounting an active volume after a vgextend). Finally > there's this bit: Sorry, can't help you with these messages. > cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2 > pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [cut] > shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 > shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 These messages are caused by hotplug trying to load modules that are not supported by your hardware. You can get rid of them by blacklisting these modules in /etc/hotplug/blacklist or by compiling a custom kernel. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]