Re: [Cooker] Install partition manager hoses Highpoint Raid array

[Jack and Melissa McSwain]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 03:04 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > Is the mount point or type written to the partition table?
>
> Yes the filesystem type is part of the partition table. If you
> set your partition to ext3 and format it, before rebooting into
> the installer, it should fix your pb.

But these were already ext3 partitions for /home and / on a working rc1 
version. But even though there was no reason for the installer to mess with 
the partition table, it shouldnt have broken the raid array when it re-wrote 
the partition table. Must be some bug left in the diskdrake or 
ataraid/hptraid modules.  I have successfully on a number of occassions 
written the partition table with the open source driver, so it may not be 
diskdrake.

Jack

Re: [Cooker] Install partition manager hoses Highpoint Raid array

[Guillaume Cottenceau]

Jack and Melissa McSwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is the mount point or type written to the partition table?

Yes the filesystem type is part of the partition table. If you
set your partition to ext3 and format it, before rebooting into
the installer, it should fix your pb.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

[Cooker] Install partition manager hoses Highpoint Raid array

[Jack and Melissa McSwain]

During the beta cycle I was surprised to find Highpoint 370 raid support in 
the kernel. So instead of using the "open source" driver I tried the hptraid 
module. I installed to a plain disk first, then inserted the modules ataraid 
and hptraid. What it gave me was /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 from what I could 
tell in the kernel docs,  it should have been /dev/ataraid/d0p1. No biggie.

Then I rebooted on the installation cd, chose expert and inserted the ataraid 
and hptraid modules. The disk partitioning app (diskdrake?) found 
/dev/ataraid/d0  I made the three partitions (on raid0 array).
Upon reboot the Hpt bios reports the raid array is broken and the partition 
table is wiped out. The raid array has to be deleted and recreated.

So I used the "open source" driver and made partitions and copied the sytem 
over, then made a custom initrd and got /,swap, and /home on the raid array.
/boot and lilo are on hda.

I took the 9.0 final release and decided to try an upgrade. Again I chose 
expert, installed ataraid and hptraid modules. Came to the disk app and again 
I had /dev/ataraid/d0. The partitions were already there so I just told it 
ext3 and mount points thinking the partition table isnt going to be touched.
But when I tried to continue it said writing partition table to disk. All I 
needed was to format / so it would be clean. I exited and rebooted and sure 
enough the raid array was broken again.

Is the mount point or type written to the partition table?

Jack