Hi, I'm writing you to report you what i noticed during an install of Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20080314-21:55 some weeks ago. I'm not opening a bug record for now as this report contains only what i remember but i'm not able to reproduce the problem and give more accurate info.
THE PROBLEM Install was run on an x86 pc previously containing a set of linux software raid disks (md0 raid1, md1 raid5). During the partioning step of the install i choose manual partitioning. The old raid sets where correctly detected and shown in the list. I deleted the old raid sets and recreated them changing disk order, number of raid devices and spare devices. Everything looked fine and after finishing the install i rebooted the pc. The booting process stopped at some point complaining about a missing root device. THE DIAGNOSYS I used a live cd to inspect the installed system after a long resync of the raid sets and found that the mdadm.conf file (in /etc and probably in the initrd) created during the install contained the definitions of the old (deleted) raid sets (on top) and also of the new ones. I retried the install this time inspecting the mdadm.conf file after every of the relevant steps and in fact it contained the old and new raid sets. I recreated it before the end of the install with mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf copied it to new install chrooted into it and updated the initrd with update-initramfs and at the reboot everythingh was ok. THE SOLUTION (just a proposal) Rewrite /etc/mdadm.conf after the partitining step of the installer rather than append to it. Best regards. Ciao, Tito -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]