On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Steve Dowe <s...@warpuniversal.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to re-use an older server, installing squeeze (6.0.5). I'm using > software RAID and LVM on the machine (details below). But I must be doing > something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it > boots I see an error flash up quickly: > > error: superfluous RAID member (5 found) > > It appears that the initramfs then gets loaded, the RAID detection fails and > it then looks for the LVM volume group, which it can't find (as the LVM > group exists on the RAID device).
I don't believe you can boot from a striped volume (raid5 being a stripe + parity). I found some instructions that may allow this to work but requires packing a non-standard initrd: http://nil-techno.blogspot.com/2009/02/booting-fakeraid-raid5-linux-half-assed.html -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOEVnYuG3eipFjkxRROp=gRkYr8NhFuJ6K=xv9=izayogyr...@mail.gmail.com
