Hello Michael,
Executing: mdadm --examine --scan --verbose -c partitions Previous partitions overflow begin of preserved partition /dev/sda2I tried several values for the /local volume, but always get the same message. Here's the debug format.log, which happens to be pretty short.[...] There seems to be some problem with the size or position of your /boot partition. It might be caused by a change in alignment, which may even have introduced a bug!? Could you please change the size of /boot to 511, report back and, if it works, also do yet another run and send the debug logs of both runs?
The /boot partition has be built by FAI 3.3.5 (setup-storage 1.2.1), asking for a size of 512 like I still do now. The parted command was the following:
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext3 32256B 534643199BThe installation does not work better after setting the size of /boot to 511, the log is exactly the same as with 512. Setting the size to 480 makes it work, though, the log is joined.
I have also tried to preserve the existing /boot partition, and this has worked fine:
disk_config disk1 preserve_lazy:1 always_format:1 primary /boot 0 ext3 rw [...] -- Nicolas
format.log.bz2
Description: application/bzip
