First of all, thanks to the SuSE team for all the great releases,
from 5.3 on up, over the years that we've used and relied on
on a daily basis!
10.1 x64 looks very solid in spite of the growing pains!
That said, there are a few glitches I don't see on the mailing
lists so far:
The YaST installer finds my RAID box on the USB bus and lets
me put an LVM2 VG on it. I set up a volume as /home.
1st problem:
The filesystem chooser doesn't list JFS as one of the options
Work around:
Set to ext2 and let it set up the disks and mkfs, then change
VT and unmount, change fstab, mkfs.jfs, mount. This can also
be done later without problem. Remember that JFS needs
different options... just use "defaults"
The install completes without any further problem, up until the
point when it is trying to reboot for the first time.
2nd problem:
It's running into what looks like a dependancy problem in the
SysV Init scripts. It's a little hard to tell, but it seems like the
USB
code has not attached the RAID box to the SCSI subsystem by the
time boot.lvm runs. It later fails to mount the JFS partition and drops
to a login and shell prompt. There is no /dev/RAID. Issuing
/etc/rc.d/boot.lvm ; mount -a creates it and mounts the RAID box.
Work around:
Some shuffling of the priority of the scripts, involving kbd (which
seems to contain USB), boot.lvm and boot.localfs seems to make
it work. Unfortunately, I'm not a SysV init person (I'm very sorry to
say, I think it's really just a horrible convoluted mess), so I can't
say exactly _what_ the dependancy problem is with any more
specificity, only that the end result of my moving things is that
it is now creating the /dev node and mounting ok.
Recreate:
It should be possible to recreate the LVM on USB disk problem
with something as simple as a USB memory stick. Install (say)
/home on it, on top of LVM2. I do not think it is necessary to
use JFS, so workaround 1 is not needed to recreate the problem.
If anyone wants, I will try this and see what the minimum steps
needed to demonstrate the problem are with the minimum of
semi-exotic hardware.
Cheers, and many thanks again for years of excellent work,
J.
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