On 19 April 2013 08:21, Miquel van Smoorenburg <miqu...@debian.org> wrote: > On 19-04-13 1:22 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> >> I'm highly interested in these patches and now I was about to prepare >> / push personal branches to d-i/partman repos with this functionality >> among other fixes targetting jessie. >> >> Timing wise, it was late to review by me for wheezy. Although mdadm is >> far supperiour and preffered over dmraid, one can setup Intel Matrix >> Raid using intel's bios firmware & then one can activate those volumes >> and perform complete installation. > > > Alas - the IMSM array shows up as a /dev/md device.. partman-auto hides all > md devices so you cannot partition a md device, and grub-installer gets > confused by /dev/md0. >
Yeah =) I am fighting with grub-installer choosing something sensible to install into at the moment. I wish all machines magically used UEFI, as grub-installer is not confused with that as much. > >> I apologies and I am expecting to review and merge your work shortly >> after wheezy release. (well actually last week of may / early june. >> Because before that I'll be busy with boost transition). > > > I was a bit late with the final patches as well, because I was waiting for a > fixed lvm2 and mdadm packages, without which installing on IMSM wouldn't > work anyway. The mdadm package did find its way into wheezy eventually > (thanks Michael!) and lvm2 didn't, but it turns out after a lot of testing > that that doesn't break things too much (or not at all if you don't use > lvm2, but I do). I was bribing release team to accept mdadm at a Cambridge BSP as well ;-) and I am hoping for improved lvm2 integration for jessie as well. > > >> And we can always push out an unofficial intel matrix storage >> installer image for wheezy later =) as a technology preview ;-) > > > That would be great, I'll be creating something similar for internal use at > the place I work anyway. > Well once merged, I'll push it to Ubuntu and there will be daily images available for Squishy Salamander (13.10). But I guess I can build one-off debian installation media and/or backport to 12.04 LTS. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- 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/canbhlugh9q2pww6sjrexs34gi9jamrfuy5jemkymk25-5zs...@mail.gmail.com
