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 DMX 6fire 24/96 2 GB DDR2-SDRAM (SPD setting) 2x Samsung SP2504C 250GB HDD @ P965 SATA port 1+2 Samsung SH-D163A DVD-ROM SATA @ P965 SATA port 3 BenQ DW-1640 DVD+-RW PATA, PATA-to-SATA adapter @ JMicron internal SATA port (BenQ @ P965 SATA port 4 does not work: XP setup delays, Vista setup freezes, a DVD cannot be read) USB Stick (USB Mass Storage) BIOS Setting: P965 Raid 0: 2x250 = 500 GB (eff. about 465 GB) capacity JMicron PATA/SATA: IDE (compatibility) mode (needs JMicron compatible IDE driver under XP, does not work with standard XP IDE driver) Working OS: Windows XP Prof. 32 Bit, WXPPro 64 Bit, Windows Vista 32 Bit (with 32 Bit and 64 Bit Intel RAID driver disks) WinXPPro 32 Bit: Blue screen with ADI1988 sound driver, device disabled. OS Distribution to install: Ubuntu Edgy i386 DVD Marvell network adapter is not recognized. My USB Stick is recognized. I put the most recent Ubuntu Feisty dmraid packages and dependencies onto the USB stick (details see below). Steps: - Boot from DVD, select text mode install - Network error: Continue - Partition disks: two separate disks shown => Go Back, into a shell - Connected USB stick, waited > 10 s - dmesg | more: sdc: sdc1 # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt # cd root # tar xvf /mnt/data/dmraid.tar dmraid-udeb_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu1_i386.udeb dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu1_i386.deb libc6-udeb_2.5-0ubuntu5_i386.udeb libc6_2.5-0ubuntu5_i386.deb libdevmapper1.02-udeb_1.02.08-1ubuntu1_i386.udeb libdevmapper1.02_1.02.08-1ubuntu1_i386.deb libselinux1_1.32-3_i386.deb libsepol1_1.14-2_i386.deb # umount /mnt # udpkg -i libc6-udeb_2.5-0ubuntu5_i386.udeb (Reading database...) (Updating database...) # udpkg -i libdevmapper1.02-udeb_1.02.08-1ubuntu1_i386.udeb (Reading database...) (Updating database...) # udpkg -i dmraid-udeb_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu1_i386.udeb (Reading database...) (Updating database...) # dmraid -r /dev/sda: isw, "isw_ddeheebhbf", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdb: isw, "isw_ddeheebhbf", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 # ls /dev/mapper ls: /dev/mapper: No such file or directory # dmraid -ay # ls /dev/mapper ls: /dev/mapper: No such file or directory I am stuck with not seeing the mapper device. What can I do now? -- DMRAID stopped to work in kernels > 2.6.15 https://launchpad.net/bugs/54246 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs