Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:58:51PM +0200, andreas.b...@srf.ch wrote: > I wont' give you a guarantee but I believe, you can change the order > of drives either in Dell's BIOS or in BMC-Settings. I didn't find that setting in the RAC setup, but after setting "Attach Virtual Media" to "Detach" in the RAC web interface (System/Media/Configuration), even squeeze's installer has the internal disk as sda. Lenny's installer doesn't seem to care about that setting and works anyway. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111031142517.gf29...@torres.zugschlus.de
Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > we are deploying Debian on a large number of servers of different > types. One of our widely used server types is the Dell PowerEdge 1950 > which is equipped with a RAC. > > The Debian Installer detects the RAC as a hard disk and assigns it > /dev/sda. This, in turn, makes the installer choke since it tries > installing to /dev/sda first. jftr, the lenny installer does things right, names the disk /dev/sda, allowing the install to proceed. This is a regression from lenny to squeeze. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111031141313.ga32...@torres.zugschlus.de
Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:08:41PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > we are deploying Debian on a large number of servers of different > > types. One of our widely used server types is the Dell PowerEdge 1950 > > which is equipped with a RAC. > > > > The Debian Installer detects the RAC as a hard disk and assigns it > > /dev/sda. This, in turn, makes the installer choke since it tries > > installing to /dev/sda first. > > This looks like another instance of #597223. Could you try with a daily > build? Sorry for taking so long to reply; I had to find a client system with the right J*v* version to allow remote media to work. Even with a daily build of the wheezy install, the first hard disk shows up in the installer as sdb. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111031124601.gd29...@torres.zugschlus.de
Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > we are deploying Debian on a large number of servers of different > types. One of our widely used server types is the Dell PowerEdge 1950 > which is equipped with a RAC. > > The Debian Installer detects the RAC as a hard disk and assigns it > /dev/sda. This, in turn, makes the installer choke since it tries > installing to /dev/sda first. This looks like another instance of #597223. Could you try with a daily build? Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio.''`. lu...@debian.org: :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#645757: AW: Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk
Hi Marc, I wont' give you a guarantee but I believe, you can change the order of drives either in Dell's BIOS or in BMC-Settings. Regards, Andreas -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Marc Haber [mailto:mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de] Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011 13:47 An: Debian Bug Tracking System Betreff: Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Tags: d-i squeeze Hi, we are deploying Debian on a large number of servers of different types. One of our widely used server types is the Dell PowerEdge 1950 which is equipped with a RAC. The Debian Installer detects the RAC as a hard disk and assigns it /dev/sda. This, in turn, makes the installer choke since it tries installing to /dev/sda first. The culprit here might be our partman early_command: d-i partman/early_command \ string disk=$(list-devices disk | head -n1); \ vgremove -f our-default-vg-name; \ for part in $(list-devices partition | grep $disk );do dd if=/dev/zero of=$part bs=1024k count=16; done; \ dd if=/dev/zero of=$disk bs=1024k count=16; \ debconf-set partman-auto/disk "$disk" Is "list-devices disk" supposed to list a removable USB disk in the first place? If not, this is a bug which should be fixed. If "list-devices disk" showing the RAC is a feature, how do you suggest handling this case while not breaking the install process for servers that don't have a RAC and where the build-in hard disk _is_ in fact /dev/sda? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111018114633.1167.10034.report...@torres.zugschlus.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/B24F5E6925C28F49A2EDEB173CBB2C96017CE6FA7D@SFMEXCCREX.sfdrs.local
Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Tags: d-i squeeze Hi, we are deploying Debian on a large number of servers of different types. One of our widely used server types is the Dell PowerEdge 1950 which is equipped with a RAC. The Debian Installer detects the RAC as a hard disk and assigns it /dev/sda. This, in turn, makes the installer choke since it tries installing to /dev/sda first. The culprit here might be our partman early_command: d-i partman/early_command \ string disk=$(list-devices disk | head -n1); \ vgremove -f our-default-vg-name; \ for part in $(list-devices partition | grep $disk );do dd if=/dev/zero of=$part bs=1024k count=16; done; \ dd if=/dev/zero of=$disk bs=1024k count=16; \ debconf-set partman-auto/disk "$disk" Is "list-devices disk" supposed to list a removable USB disk in the first place? If not, this is a bug which should be fixed. If "list-devices disk" showing the RAC is a feature, how do you suggest handling this case while not breaking the install process for servers that don't have a RAC and where the build-in hard disk _is_ in fact /dev/sda? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111018114633.1167.10034.report...@torres.zugschlus.de
