Bug#58857: The boot floppies do not work with milex raid on root.
> I am installing Debian 2.2 on a new system and am having a problem. It
> appears that the boot floppies don't support root raid on milex controlers.
> This is a rather new feature in Linux 2.2 but the devices read as follows.
>
> /dev/rd/c0d0 is the physical disk and /dev/rd/c0d0p[1-9] are the partitions
> which can be created.
need some additional info:
1) are you using the standard or compact kernel? have you tried the other one?
2) did you get any error messages when you tried to install the boot loader?
> Basically what I had to do was open up a shell and:
> mount -o rw,remount /dev/ram /
this really should be necessary.... what does 'mount' say?
> As setup didn't seem to do this. Then:
> fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0
> and setup all the partitions.
did you get any error messages when you tried to do this through the
dbootstrap interface?
randolph
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