Asus P5B Deluxe: /dev/mapper not available, dmraid -ay does _not_ help
Hardware:
Asus P5B Deluxe BIOS 0804
[with
Intel P965+ICH8R
JMicron JMB363
Marvell 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet
Marvell 88E8001 PCI Gigabit Ethernet
SoundMAX ADI1988
]
Intel Core2Duo E6700 (standard FSB 266 MHz)
Terratec
Ok, I have tried harder:
I have found out how the /dev/mapper directory can be created.
I cannot create an ext3 partition with the partition manager.
I am verbose as always, hopefully this is ok.
# modprobe dm-mod
# ls /dev/mapper
control
# dmraid -ay
# ls /dev/mapper
control
isw_ddeheebhbf_Volum
dmraid -s shows "stride: 256"
In the BIOS (Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility) a Strip
Size of 128 KB is default for RAID 0. In the manual, "stripe size" is
mentioned as well.
I am confused about the definitions. Is a stride the sum of all the
strips shared across the harddisk (2 HDD
I managed to activate apt-get with DVD repository, but am stuck with
Feisty glibc conflict at the moment. See the end of my post for some
ways to finish the installation. Any suggestions?
Steps: install dmraid udebs as above, dmraid -ay, partition with manager
Execute shell
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# parted /dev/map
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.15-23-686
Hardware:
Asus NCCH-DL BIOS 1005
CPUs: 2x Intel Xeon P4 2.8 GHz
Hyperthreading enabled (log. 4 CPUs)
2x 512 MB DDR400 SDRAM ECC
Intel 82875P (MCH)
Intel 6300ESB (ICH, "ICH-S")
Intel 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet (CSA)
Matrox G450 DH
