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Re: Debian Installer - RAID0 SOFT



On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:30:28AM -0300, Jozeph Brasil wrote:
> Hi Man,

> I do that... I create the initrd... but the machine don't boot!
> :(

I don't have any other ideas then, sorry.  There are lots of things
that can go wrong when trying to make an initrd, and I've never even
tried to do this from the Debian installer.  You might have better luck
asking on debian-user.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

> @ 24/9, Steve Langasek:

> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:01:09PM -0300, Jozeph Brasil wrote:
> > > Thank you for reply-me back!
> >
> > > > The next incarnation of the Debian installer (which is what this mailing
> > > > list is for) seems to have some support for LVM/EVMS.  For woody, the
> > > > steps you describe above seem very correct, except for the need for a
> > > > separate /boot partition.
> >
> > > But I have a separated /boot partition...
> >
> > > Look:
> >
> > > /dev/hda1 = /boot
> > > /dev/hda2 = swap
> > > /dev/hda3 = linux raid autodetect -\__ root (/)
> > > /dev/hdb1 = linux raid autodetect -/
> >
> > > /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb1 are /dev/md0 (/) root.
> >
> > > Booting from Debian CD, running lar1440.bin by blade I can create
> > > /dev/md0, install debian on it, the problem, how I said, is boot
> > > the machine.
> >
> > > How can I create an initrd booting from CD? When I try to do that
> > > mounting /dev/md0 in /target and chrooting, mkinitrd fail because
> > > /proc is null in the new /target (chroot).
> >
> > It should be no problem to mount proc under the /target with
> >  # mount -tproc none /target/proc
> >
> > > In make-kpkg have a option: --initrd, I have tried it but the
> > > initrd imagem was not created... Is that option to create initrd?
> > > Similar to mkinitrd ?
> >
> > No idea on that one.
> >
> > Cheers,

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