Hello Thomas, I'm using fai 5.3.6 (Debian stable). Since I could use hooks and skiptask it's not that important, but I wonder if there is a working example for "preserve_reinstall".
I read something about raid, lvm and "preserve_reinstall" in the archive: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2009-October/007387.html and that you suggested to run "mdadm-startall" https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2009-October/007389.html in 20-hwdetect.[source|sh] instead of including it in setup-storage. But since it's more than 9 years ago and there is no command "mdadm- startall" nor do I find anything helpfull about this, I thought that there is a different solution. Since raid/lvm is not needed during installation there should be no need to activate or mount it. Ok, how could setup-storage know about lvm when not starting raid before. Difficult. setup-storage sees the three raid devices, but no lvm / volumegroup: > setup-storage is running in test-only mode > disklist: md125 > md126 > md127 > sda > sdb > sdc > sdd There is the > "WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad." and # lsmod | grep -i lvm is empty. Is this related? Christian Am Freitag, den 04.01.2019, 19:41 +0100 schrieb Thomas Lange: > It will take some effort to debug this. > > > The initrd (created by dracut) may also detect and active softraid > and > lvm. I'm not sure if this really happens. I remember that we already > had some issue with raid or lvm activated by dracut and then > setup-storage could handle this later on. > > BTW, which FAI version? This is also important.
