Russel Coker spoke: : > The rescue mode of the installer needs a step : > to activate MD devices. Currently, only the plain : > disk partitions are visible; that's no help. : : Sounds like a reasonable request. Filed a bug report? : : Note that it has to be an optional measure.
I will, also for the other packages you have indicated. Martin F. Krafft said: : > Well, at the least it should scan for partitions marked as a RAID : > and prompt the user whether or not to start the set. : : Other than the partition type, there's no way to do this, and : setting the partition type is not always desirable. : : Anyway, check out /usr/share/mdadm/startall, which I hope to migrate : to the udeb after etch. Then you can just call the script and have : all arrays assembled. I didn't think that in a recovery situation RAID assembly could be damaging ... that obviously complicates matters. I was thinking in the line of the rescue disks that were offered years ago by Linux distributions, that could be configured to load a kernel and mount the root file system on disk, thereby sidestepping the Bermuda triangle of boot loader/kernel/initrd. That's what I would have needed here. Anyway, I was already hosed when there were no md devices in /dev (and I didn't know the majors/minors to mknod them). Kurt Roeckx enlightened (after Roberto C. Sanchez' minimal art): : > Well, at the least it should scan for partitions marked as a RAID : > and : > prompt the user whether or not to start the set. : : You basicly have to start the software raid configuration tool, and : then : press finish. After that it will see the drives. I've filed a bug : about this some time ago: : http://bugs.debian.org/391474 I think that's exactly what I was looking for, except I wasn't aware of that. Thanks everybody, it looks like there is a good chance that the next installers will handle this situation better. Claus -- Claus Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.clausfischer.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
