On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:26:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
[ Fabio M. Di Nitto ]
* RAID cannot be selected if we are on sparc AND the partiton starts at 0
otherwise there will partition table corruption happening in the first
512 bytes of the disk.
I found another bit of
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
I wasn't able to reproduce the working condition with a 3.5 GB root (/) md0
partition, or a 2 GB root md0. :( I've finally created a 256 MB /boot md0,
and a 5 GB root (/) md1 partition, and finally PROM found SILO.
Someone who knows PROM and/or SILO
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:56:21AM +0100, Chris Newport wrote:
2) Older OBPs cannot see beyond either 1Gb or 2Gb into a partition
depending on version. If your installer puts anything needed for
the initial boot process beyond this point you will not be able
to boot. [ Affects Sparc32
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
4) If the partition table on the disk was first written by an old
version of the Solaris format command the maximum useable size of
any partition will be either 1Gb or 2Gb depending on version.
Linux will probably not notice and allow you to
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
It _is_ supported, but the option Use as RAID will not be shown if the
current partition starts on sector 0 of the disk because that would
overwrite the Sun disklabel info.
| The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
It _is_ supported, but the option Use as RAID will not be shown if the
current partition starts on sector 0 of the disk because that would
overwrite the Sun disklabel info.
So, to set up RAID on sparc, first create a small
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 16:46, Josip Rodin wrote:
If software RAID wasn't supposed to be used on the SILO boot device at
all, then this code wouldn't be here.
Please file a BR against silo-installer with a summary of this thread.
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:57:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
If software RAID wasn't supposed to be used on the SILO boot device at
all, then this code wouldn't be here.
Please file a BR against silo-installer with a summary of this thread.
But there is no problem with silo-installer, it's
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 17:19, Josip Rodin wrote:
But there is no problem with silo-installer, it's partman that needs to
take care of this. I checked the partman-md bug list, and found
#411756, where I've now concurred.
No, the bit that does the check in partman is part of silo-installer!
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:39:35PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
But there is no problem with silo-installer, it's partman that needs to
take care of this. I checked the partman-md bug list, and found
#411756, where I've now concurred.
No, the bit that does the check in partman is part of
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
[ Fabio M. Di Nitto ]
* RAID cannot be selected if we are on sparc AND the partiton starts at 0
otherwise there will partition table corruption happening in the first
512 bytes of the disk.
I found another bit of info,
Josip Rodin a écrit :
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:39:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting:
[...]
| The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap
| writes from first block and avoid silo block. If swap begins on the
|
Hi,
I couldn't help but notice that there is no support for software RAID arrays
in the sparc installer.
All I found to document it was:
partman-md (24) unstable; urgency=low
[ Fabio M. Di Nitto ]
* RAID cannot be selected if we are on sparc AND the partiton starts at 0
otherwise there
On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:18, Josip Rodin wrote:
I couldn't help but notice that there is no support for software RAID
arrays in the sparc installer.
It _is_ supported, but the option Use as RAID will not be shown if the
current partition starts on sector 0 of the disk because that would
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
I couldn't help but notice that there is no support for software RAID
arrays in the sparc installer.
It _is_ supported, but the option Use as RAID will not be shown if the
current partition starts on sector 0 of the disk because
On Sunday 01 April 2007 15:24, Josip Rodin wrote:
But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting:
[...]
| The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap
| writes from first block and avoid silo block. If swap begins on the
| cylinder 1, openprom cannot boot (ther
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:39:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting:
[...]
| The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap
| writes from first block and avoid silo block. If swap begins on the
| cylinder 1, openprom
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 04:19:19PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:39:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting:
[...]
| The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap
| writes from first block and
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:56:19PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
| The first partition has to be ext3 or fd [...]
The man said that it works for him(tm)... that sounds relevant :)
Relevance wasn't questioned; your conclusion was questioned.
My conclusion was that he said that a separate
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