> >Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp (2.6.8-5) ... > >/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: RAID support requires raidtools2
If you add a hook called configure.SOME_CLASS that does fcopy /etc/raidtab to get a raidtab in place before mkinitrd above runs, the error goes away. mkinitrd simply checks for the existence of /etc/raidtab in your target install and if it doesn't find it, it spits out "RAID support requires raidtools2". I think it does the test for /etc/raidtab when it detects a root raid situation (it's told root is on an md device). I've got an example RAID-1 setup of config files that go on top of the FAI simple example posted here if you want to get something working quickly: http://www.linuxma.com/fai_raid -Eric Malkowski > > Bizarro, iirc my setup installs raidtools2 just by itself. In DEFAULT > or somesuch. > > I have to say here that this is something of the lowest priority, so > I get to advance my FAI toy maybe a few hours per week, which makes > this all the more interesting ;) > > >partition.ATA_RAID file: > > I added my questions in form of comments ;) > > >#!/bin/bash -x > > > >#**************************************************** > ># build a raid array for filesystems > >#**************************************************** > > > ># let FAI partition disks and then we'll modify > >task_partition > > # Is this supposed to be one line? > > ># get list of partitions > > >disks="/dev/sda /dev/sdc" > >partitions=$(sfdisk -l $disks|grep "^/dev/sd[a-z][0-9]"|cut -d" " -f1) > > # The line I edited in Mr. Vilain's script looked like this, but I > # had /dev/hda /dev/hdc as disks in a similar sfdisk magic. > > ># change partition type to raid > > >for partition in [EMAIL PROTECTED]; do > > dev=$(echo $partition | tr -d '[:digit:]') > > part=$(echo $partition | tr -cd '[:digit:]') > > id=$(sfdisk --print-id $dev $part) > > case ${id} in > > 82) sfdisk --change-id $dev $part fd ;; > > 83) sfdisk --change-id $dev $part fd ;; > > esac > >done > > > ># partition mirror disks > > >sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb > >sfdisk -d /dev/sdc | sfdisk /dev/sdd > > # Took me a second reading to see that you use the partitions > # that you have already, right? > > ># create raid array for each partition > > >mdadm -C /dev/md1 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]1 # / > >mdadm -C /dev/md5 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]5 # swap > >mdadm -C /dev/md6 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]6 # /var > >mdadm -C /dev/md7 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]7 # /tmp > >mdadm -C /dev/md8 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]8 # /usr > >mdadm -C /dev/md9 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]9 # /opt > >mdadm -C /dev/md10 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]10 # /local > > >mdadm -C /dev/md11 -v -R -f -l1 -c128 -n2 /dev/sd[cd]1 # /export > > > ># create filesystems > > >arrays=$(cat /proc/mdstat|grep "^md[0-9]"|cut -d" " -f1) > >for array in [EMAIL PROTECTED]; do > > echo y | mkreiserfs -f -q /dev/${array} > >done > > > ># create swap > > >mkswap /dev/md5 > > > ># create /etc/fstab > > >cat > ${LOGDIR}/fstab << EOF > ># /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > >#<file sys> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > >/dev/md1 / reiserfs defaults 0 1 > >/dev/md5 none swap rw 0 0 > >none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > >/dev/md10 /local reiserfs defaults 0 2 > >/dev/md9 /opt reiserfs defaults 0 2 > >/dev/md7 /tmp reiserfs defaults 0 2 > >/dev/md8 /usr reiserfs defaults 0 2 > >/dev/md6 /var reiserfs defaults 0 2 > >/dev/md11 /export reiserfs defaults 0 2 > >EOF > > > ># create new disk variables > > >cat > $diskvar << EOF > >BOOT_DEVICE=/dev/sda > >ROOT_PARTITION=/dev/md1 > >BOOT_PARTITION=/dev/md1 > >SWAPLIST="/dev/md5" > >EOF > > > >. $diskvar > > > >skiptask partition > > # Couldn't you do partition to automagically partition the sda and > # sdc for sdb and sdd? > # Place this hook after partition? > > Otherwise this seems like my initial approach, but yeah, now I have > the bigger task of having an unbootable system.. I never got it to boot > even with a vanilla FAI example installation :P > > I boot with (the relevant fai options): > FA I_ACTION=install FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslogd,debug LILO > SOFTRAID1 MBR > > Is there something obviously wrong here? > > I can't remember if package_config/DEFAULT had this by default but > this is a snippet from mine: > PACKAGES install GRUB > grub lilo- > > PACKAGES install LILO > lilo grub- > > Thanks a million for any comments/helps/anything you have! :) > > -- > mjt >