Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Log: >> Replace dpt_i2o with i2o_block to avoid diverting from installed >> system regarting to RAID with Adaptec 2100S. Closes: #440161 >> >> Modified: >> trunk/packages/kernel/kernel-wedge/debian/changelog >> trunk/packages/kernel/kernel-wedge/modules/scsi-extra-modules > > As discussed on IRC, this is not enough to support RAID adapters using > i2o_block. Attached is a first attempt of adding the other bits. > > A test image is also available: > http://people.debian.org/~lunar/i2o_support-i386-mini.iso
During installation everything seems to work great. The i2o_block and i2o_core modules are loaded, and the partitioner finds the /dev/i2o/hda-device and uses it. Even (/target)/etc/fstab looks fine using the /dev/i2o/hda-devicepaths. The problem is when trying to install grub or lilo. First syslog-entries from grub-installer: Oct 3 08:28:04 main-menu[986]: INFO: Menu item 'grub-installer' selected Oct 3 08:28:04 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for os-prober-udeb Oct 3 08:28:04 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for os-prober-udeb Oct 3 08:28:05 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic Oct 3 08:28:05 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1 Oct 3 08:28:05 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed. Oct 3 08:32:10 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic Oct 3 08:32:19 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic Oct 3 09:01:16 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic Oct 3 09:01:20 main-menu[986]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium' Oct 3 09:01:20 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium So trying ilo-installer: Oct 3 09:01:37 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for auto-install Oct 3 09:01:37 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for ai-choosers Oct 3 09:01:37 main-menu[986]: INFO: Menu item 'lilo-installer' selected Oct 3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: (process:31822): sed: Oct 3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: (process:31822): bad option in substitution expression Oct 3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: (process:31822): Oct 3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Configuring 'lilo-installer' failed with error code 1 Oct 3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Menu item 'lilo-installer' failed. Oct 3 09:07:15 main-menu[986]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'medium' to 'low' Oct 3 09:07:15 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to low I've also made the logs [1] from the installation available. - Werner [1] http://folk.uio.no/werner/i2o-mini.iso-install/
