Re: Re: SW-RAID support (was: Who do you have to sleep with...)
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:56:04 +0200 Paul Fleischer wrote on debian-boot:
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> I can check it in, if that is what people want (I should have access
> for it now).
> Right now I have 2 (udeb)packages: mdcfg and partman-md. So, I just
> put them in trunk/packages/mdcfg and trunk/packages/partman/partman-md ?
>
> "mdcfg" kinda works, but the partman part is bugging me a bit.
> However, before anything works a mdadm-udeb is needed. I supose I just
> get in touch with the maintainer (joussen) of mdadm, right?
>
> > Mark, if you can test d-i SW-RAID support, this is great.
> > Testing (incl. giving qualified test reports) is the single
> > most important task for d-i, IMHO.
>
> I'm afraid it fails at everything right now :-) But with a bit of
> luck it might soon work ;-)
Maybe i was lucky, but yes, it (your iso image dated 2004-02-28) almost
works automatically. Except for a few easy problems as reported in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200404/msg01721.html
The manual interventions were:
- Change partitions to type 'fd' (Raid Autodetect).
- Clear previous garbage on partitions (dd if=/dev/zero of= ...
can be offered as an option after the error on detection of md).
- Suggest LILO (not GRUB) to boot from Raid-1 using a real disk
as boot device...
- Include normal lilo package in the image.
An extra could be to check if it is possible to recognize other raid
partitions apart from the root one after the first boot.
It worked ok for me, after leaving apart the pseudo-hardware Raid
support (actually it is software bios supported) in the Promise
Technologies FastTrack card.
I think that even in it present state it is worth to include in
the main trunk to allow more testing.
Best regards and thank you very much for your work.
Jose R.
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