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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: debian-installer: lvm+raid+cryptfs blues
- From: Jeff Smith <drebian@dodgit.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:12:35 +0100
- Message-id: <20080728211235.6074.42698.reportbug@dhukka.codimension.net>
Package: debian-installer
Version: lenny beta 2
Severity: normal
I have used lenny beta 2 d-i several times (not particularly with the system from
which I am sending this report, so please ignore sys info below).
All systems were x86 - in all cases I was looking to get two physical disks
mdadm mirrored, with a /boot primary partition, and one or more partitions
(sometimes logical, sometimes primary) running lvm on top of crypt.
The process was not straightforward, and I made the following notes:
1). If d-i finds a nic, it attempts to DHCP even when I do not wish to use the
network. Even when I do not have the cable plugged in, in fact.
2). If raid is already set up on the devices from a previous attempt, the
assemblable devices are not shown until raid is configured, even though there
is nothing presented to configure, as all the partitions are already part of
a logical disk.
3). I was never able to get swap onto encrypted to work, either as an lvm or a
dedicated partition.
4). I also could not see anyway to use /dev/random as the
key-file for swap, rather than hard-wiring a key-phrase.
5). I was never able to boot my crypted system without manually adding the
cryptopts=source=/dev/md1,target=md1_crypt,lvm=vg0-root
parameters to the grub menu.lst file.
6). I was not able to set /boot up prior to the lvm crypt part. (Obviously
all the config for /boot can be done long before the lvm and crypt partitions are
configured). Any attempt to set /boot up and then continue to do config lvm
and crypt for the root partition causes the partitioner to forget that
the boot partition is allocated to /boot. (If I set up configure
the boot partition at the same time as all the other partitions that have
required lvm and crypt, then it will work: only swap will fail).
I don't have access to the dilab to demo the above using small partitions, but
I have been through the process on enough of my own boxes to believe it is
easily replicable. I have used both GUI and text versions of the installer.
Jeff
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-M51-D370
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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