Bug#440161: Adding support for i2o RAID adapters

[Morten Werner Forsbring <werner@debian.org>]

Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:

>> Log:
>> Replace dpt_i2o with i2o_block to avoid diverting from installed
>> system regarting to RAID with Adaptec 2100S. Closes: #440161
>> 
>> Modified:
>>    trunk/packages/kernel/kernel-wedge/debian/changelog
>>    trunk/packages/kernel/kernel-wedge/modules/scsi-extra-modules
>
> As discussed on IRC, this is not enough to support RAID adapters using
> i2o_block.  Attached is a first attempt of adding the other bits.
>
> A test image is also available:
>   http://people.debian.org/~lunar/i2o_support-i386-mini.iso

During installation everything seems to work great. The i2o_block and
i2o_core modules are loaded, and the partitioner finds the
/dev/i2o/hda-device and uses it. Even (/target)/etc/fstab looks fine
using the /dev/i2o/hda-devicepaths.

The problem is when trying to install grub or lilo. First
syslog-entries from grub-installer:

  Oct  3 08:28:04 main-menu[986]: INFO: Menu item 'grub-installer' selected 
  Oct  3 08:28:04 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for os-prober-udeb 
  Oct  3 08:28:04 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for os-prober-udeb 
  Oct  3 08:28:05 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic
  Oct  3 08:28:05 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1 
  Oct  3 08:28:05 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed. 
  Oct  3 08:32:10 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic
  Oct  3 08:32:19 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic
  Oct  3 09:01:16 grub-installer: info: architecture: i386/generic
  Oct  3 09:01:20 main-menu[986]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium' 
  Oct  3 09:01:20 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium

So trying ilo-installer:

  Oct  3 09:01:37 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for auto-install 
  Oct  3 09:01:37 main-menu[986]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for ai-choosers 
  Oct  3 09:01:37 main-menu[986]: INFO: Menu item 'lilo-installer' selected 
  Oct  3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: (process:31822): sed:  
  Oct  3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: (process:31822): bad option in substitution expression 
  Oct  3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: (process:31822):  
  Oct  3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Configuring 'lilo-installer' failed with error code 1 
  Oct  3 09:01:38 main-menu[986]: WARNING **: Menu item 'lilo-installer' failed. 
  Oct  3 09:07:15 main-menu[986]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'medium' to 'low' 
  Oct  3 09:07:15 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to low

I've also made the logs [1] from the installation available.


- Werner

[1] http://folk.uio.no/werner/i2o-mini.iso-install/