On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:59:20 -0400 S Scharf <ss11...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a new Dell T5500 with two SATA disks (and a Dell Raid > controller). The BIOS is set to revert to ATA disks if the > 'hardware' Raid signature is not detected. > > I want to install testing with one large software Raid 1 partition as > the physical drive for the LVM, (which will have a root and home > partition) on it. > > The first time I installed, everything went well but on a subsequent > re-boot (and probably after some updates) the system failed to > boot with no /dev/md* devices created (so the LVM couldn't be mounted) > > (I also tried having the root partition in it's own raid partition, > with the same results.) > > There seem to be some bug reports about 2.6.30 having problems with > the fakeroot check (dmraid) blocking the mdraid detect. > Stable uses 2.6.26 (which is before the reported problem) but that > installer only wants to allow lilo and not grub2, which is needed > for the configuration I desire. > > Anyone know of a work around to get this system running? (and what > changed after my first install?) > > Stuart Hi, Stuart My system is still broke, running /md0 as / and /md1 for others under lvm2.. see bug #545032. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545032 It's still broke...8-( Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
