Bug#282588: RAID-Installation failed
OK, I made another test. Plain PC, one hard disk. Initiated with the debian boot floppies, used ftp.de.debian.org as the mirror. With the partition tool, I made two partitions: - 1 GBhda1 - 10 GB hda2 Both configured as RAID partitions. I then installed RAID1 devices, one for swap, with hda1 (second device missing), and one as / with hda2 (second device missing). The debian installer installs everything perfect, mounts /dev/md/1 to install the debian system, everything works. Until reboot. When rebooting, the system says immediately, that it doesn't understand partition type 0xfd and can't boot. I then tried it again and made two similar partitions, but this time I made the RAID/data partition the first and the RAID/swap partition the second (The system didn't allow to make an md device out of the second RAID partition, but this is another problem). This time the machine bootet properly. So it seems to be a problem with the configuration of grub if the first partition is a RAID containing the swap. This works under normal conditions, because I had configured the system manually this way and it worked. regards Hadmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#282588: RAID-Installation failed
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 20041118 Hi, I just installed a machine with the most recent installation floppy set (continuing with ftp.de.debian.org as the online debian mirror). I was quite happy to see that the installer supports the configuration of software RAID devices from the first installation and made use of it. But then the auto-installed 2.4 kernel did not boot because it did not know how to treat RAID partitions. RAID is obviously not compiled into the kernel. Since at this stage of installation it is not possible to modify the ramdisk, I had to completely restart the installation. Therefore I propose one of three solutions: - Print a warning that the system can't boot from RAID with this kernel - Have the maintainer of the kernel packages compile them with RAID built in - Include the raid modules in the initial ramdisk. regards Hadmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#282588: RAID-Installation failed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed a machine with the most recent installation floppy set (continuing with ftp.de.debian.org as the online debian mirror). I was quite happy to see that the installer supports the configuration of software RAID devices from the first installation and made use of it. But then the auto-installed 2.4 kernel did not boot because it did not know how to treat RAID partitions. RAID is obviously not compiled into the kernel. Since at this stage of installation it is not possible to modify the ramdisk, I had to completely restart the installation. Therefore I propose one of three solutions: - Print a warning that the system can't boot from RAID with this kernel - Have the maintainer of the kernel packages compile them with RAID built in - Include the raid modules in the initial ramdisk. AFAIK raid is fully supported by the initrd installed by the installer. At least I've put root on raid several times and it worked for me. I think we need more details about how it didn't work for you. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#282588: RAID-Installation failed
Hadmut Danisch wrote: To reproduce the problem, simply install a machine (doesn't need a second disk, just make a raid-1 out of a single partition, second missing) with the current debian floppies and wait for the reboot. Machine will not boot. I'm sorry, but my testing contracts that, and if I cannot reproduce it, I can't fix it. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#282588: RAID-Installation failed
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:44:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: AFAIK raid is fully supported by the initrd installed by the installer. At least I've put root on raid several times and it worked for me. I think we need more details about how it didn't work for you. Configuration went very well, but when rebooting the kernel complained that it doesn't know how to handle partition type fd (RAID). I didn't have the time to find the details, therefore I reinstalled the machine without raid, made a new kernel with RAID built in and then installed the raid manually. The kernel did not know what to do with fd partitions and aborted, so either the kernel could not get the ramdisk from a raid partition or the ramdisk didn't plug in the raid1 module properly. As far as I remember there is a problem with raid as module: The kernel might not detect partitions by itself and need an explicit call, as done by the debian raid package in /etc/init.d To reproduce the problem, simply install a machine (doesn't need a second disk, just make a raid-1 out of a single partition, second missing) with the current debian floppies and wait for the reboot. Machine will not boot. But I don't remember whether the machine hung before or after accessing the ramdisk. Sorry, have no test machine available at the moment. regards Hadmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#282588: RAID-Installation failed
I'll try it with a different machine, but I'll be out of office thursday and friday, and busy tomorrow, so I won't be able to test it before monday. regards Hadmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
