Package: debian-installer Version: 20100211 Severity: important
-- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.32+25 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) After installing a Debian/Squeeze with RAID1 and Logical Volumes, the freshly installed system does not boot. Error message at first boot: mdadm /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb appear to have very similar superblocks. Please zero-superblocks on one of the device. Devices overlap. System goes to initrd prompt. Not possible to activate RAID1 unit /dev/md0 mdadm always report the same error when activating the RAID1. system is having a /boot device on /dev/hda (/dev/hda1) /dev/sda and /dev/sdb with one primary partition marqued for RAID AUTODETECT. /dev/md0 is used as a PV, there is one Volume Groupe vg01 and 3 logical volumes : /dev/vg01/lvol1-root /dev/vg02-swap and /dev/vg03-home If I boot the unbootable system with a live CD, I manage to activate the MD and the LVM on it and do it manually. Installing a Debian Lenny instead of Debian Squeeze solved the problem. /dev/hda is on compact flash card 4G /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are brand new 500Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 Grub boots, but as soon as the system is looking for a root filesystem, it stops waiting, because the RAID array is not ready. I tried to force --zero-superblocks on the device /dev/sda and /dev/sdb from a liveCD but it doesn't change. It makes the system uninstallable on classical RAID1 configuration with separate /boot partition -- 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/20100518103959.7304.96655.report...@coruscant.vallon.lan
