Severity: grave Package: initrd(?)In the meantime, I tested the first stable Wheezy release on the hardware as described in the previous messages of this bug, i.e. IBM NetVista A40 (model 6840-QDG), Promise Fastrak TX2300 PCI and two Western Digital Caviar Red 2 TB SATA drives configured as RAID-1 (mirror).
Result: Still the same problem. :-(Because this bug affects Debian's basic setup (=getting a bootable and running system where one can do the first root login and applying further "apt-get install"/configuration), the severity level should be increased.
Because dmraid itself always works fine in the emergency system as well as in the installation environment, I strongly believe that the dmraid package itself is 100% ok but something in the initrd boot configuration creation process causes that bug (probably a missing "insmod dmraid", wrong special device file for root system or something similar).
It's also to note that dmraid on the same hardware works flawlessly withing Debian Squeeze (the old-stable release now) when applying the steps at [1].
To exclude any hardware specific issue from the IBM motherboard (the 6840-QDG is an older model), I moved the Fastrak TX2300 controller and the two hard drives into another hardware equipped with an Asus P5B-VM motherboard and Intel Pentium Core Duo CPU (full x64 capable) and retested the basic setup using a Debian default partitioning layout.
Result: Installation also succeeds but booting the installed system fails. Details:
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/Asus_P5B-VM_20130508/ Differences to the IBM NetVista hardware:- the boot failure message is a little another one, see the .jpg in the link above - "exit" in the BusyBox does not produce a kernel panic, it just calls the BusyBox again - While installation, the question for placing GRUB into the MBR didn't appear, I directly had to complete the /dev/mapper/pdc_cacjhiccia there
I hope this helps fix the bug for the next 7.0.1 release so I don't need to use an oldstable Debian release on this kind of hardware. :-)
Andreas
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid
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