Package: debian-installer Severity: grave This concerns a bug in the partition portion of the debian-installer for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r0. At the bottom of this report are also two feature requests.
1) I start with a single 80 GB hard disk. 2) Clear the partition table. 3) Create a couple 20 GB partitions marked as RAID volumes. 4) Run "Configure software RAID" to tie the partitions into a RAID device (I happened to pick RAID 0 but I don't think it matters). 5) Now select the master hda hard disk and hit return to clear out the partition table. 6) The RAID0 device still exists, even though its underlying partitions are gone. 7) In particular, one can now partition hda in a usual non-raid way (just swap and a large root partition), yet the installer thinks md0 exists, and continuing the installation leads to a sequence of error messages. (Whether there will be data loss, I don't know. It seems if something tries to write to md0, it will end up writing into some random area of the now-root partition on hda, and this will lead to random data loss.) 8) Attempting to delete the md0 device isn't so easy. First off, it isn't clear that one needs to use "Configure software RAID" to get rid of it. But trying "Configure software RAID" leads to an error message that the partition table has changed and one should reboot before continuing. Thank you. Alexander Perlis __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]