On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:27:52PM +0100, Simon Heywood wrote: > I seem to remember (maybe from a previous thread on this list) that the > RAID features of the Debian-Installer don't work on SPARC machines. > I've certainly not been able to do that on my Netra T1 105. However, a > RAID-1 + LVM set-up is both possible and fairly easy to achieve. You > just need the benefit of hindsight. :-)
After alot of fiddling around, I think I've managed to manually build both the RAID-1 device and LVM VG and LV's that I wanted to create. I ended up modifying the filter in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf from the d-i shell, so that it would ignore the physical disks. Even with that, I had to run vgcreate twice to finally get anything out of it. (note: still getting errors about fsync failing for /etc/lvm/backup, but I totally ignored any and all such errors). I went back to the d-i partioner menu, and finally it was showing my LV's in the list. There is still some underlying problem however, as it kept insisting I had made and needed to commit some change to the RAID device; when I let it do so, it then complained that the change was not accepted and a reboot would be required. I ignored this and proceeded. Back at the main d-i menu I instructed it to install the base system, which it seems to have done without incident. I am now however stuck trying to get SILO functional. Attempting this from the d-i menu resulted in a nice little message stating an error had occured (no details given). So, manually, from the shell: ~ # /target/sbin/silo -r /target /etc/silo.conf appears to be valid Fatal error: Couldn't find out what device is second stage on Is SILO aware of RAID or LVM? I guess I could go back and blow all this stuff away and create a non-RAID, non-LVM partition at the start of both disks for /boot; suboptimal but I guess I'll take what I can get. Of course, even if I can make SILO happy, the bootup might still fail; if so, I think I'll try the method you suggested next. Thanks, -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]