Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i Bug was caught on preseeding Debian 7.6.0/i386, but I beleive it will work for any other installation on dmraid enabled box. In my case dmraid=true was added to kernel options of latest netboot kernel.
Installer insert dmraid module and create device, say /dev/mapper/asr_raid When partitions are created this device split into /dev/mapper/asr_raidp1 asr_raidp2 and others. I have two v60x servers with AIC-7902 HostRAID and they behave different. In the real kernel booting devices will be named /dev/mapper/asr_raid1 asr_raid2 and others. (without p). So initramfs will fail to boot if d-i will use device names as boot names. this is first bug and it is most serious. As a workaround I used ln -s asr_raid2 asr_raidp2, booted, refreshed fstab and update-grub. On the other server d-i used UUIDs as boot names and it fail to load because kernel find and link /dev/s* devices to UUID devices, then load dmraid, which make sd devices busy and initramfs fail to load root (by the way it will still has asr_raidp device in resume environment variable). As a workaround I edited grub boot list, booted, edited fstab and update-grub. This is bug number two. Server intallations differs: first used dmraid=true in kernel boot options, second had 'd-i disk-detect/dmraid/enable boolean true' in preseed file. Don't know if it make sense. Also initramfs complain about dm_raid45 module and I don't know if its a bug number three or not. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140717221150.2689.95156.report...@modis.labma.ru
