Re: Using Alioth Opteron net install to config MD raid1

[Ashley Flynn]

Hi

Yeah that's what I'm forced to do for installs currently. It's a total 
pain in the ass though compared to how easy it should be. Lots of 
partition juggling is no fun.


I have had this problem since trying amd64 sarge from like 4 months ago 
so it doesn't seem to matter what build of the sarge installer I use so far.


Anyone sucessfully used the installer to install a RAID5 root partition?

Ashley

Mike Reinehr wrote:


On Saturday 21 May 2005 02:53 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
 


Anyone got any ideas?
 


No ideas apart from being speachless. Doesn't look like an straight
forward bug and fix.

   


Thanks

Ashley
 


MfG
   Goswin
   



From a technical standpoint I certainly can not add anything to what Goswin 
just has said, but I did have one thought. If you can install root 
successfully to a non-raid partition, have you tried converting that over to 
RAID. Use some of your remaining free space to create a RAID partition and 
copy your root partition over to it (I've done something similar on several 
occasions with Knoppix). Then edit your boot loader  have a go. (That's 
particularly easy with GRUB.)


HTH's

cmr
 




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Re: Using Alioth Opteron net install to config MD raid1

[Ashley Flynn]

Hi all
Trying to install daily build of sarge from 19052005 on to a RAID 5 system.
I am using the businesscard netinst image. I am using 
http://debian.csail.mit.edu/ as the mirror and testing as the version.

Root / is RAID 5.
/boot is just on a standard ext3 partition.
I am using expert install.
No matter which kernel option I choose after getting all the packages I 
get the following error when the installer gets to apt-get -y install 
kernel-image:

   dpkg: warning, architecture 'amd64' not in remapping table.
This message spams up the third terminal screen infinitely and the 
installer hangs.

I can get it back by going and killing the hung apt-get -y install 
process.

After I do that I get the message:
   /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine SCSI module
   Failed to create initrd image.
I do not know if what I see after I kill the bad process is significant.
If I do not use a RAID root partition, the system installs fine.
System specs are:
   Tyan Dual AMD M/B
   2x Opteron 250 CPUs
   SATA HDDs
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Ashley
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