Re: RAID1 netinst CD

["W. Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

Hello,

today I sat down together with an experienced Linux/UNIX admin and
we went through the complete installation with RAID1.  Unfortunately,
we didn't succeed.  We have two identical HDs and created four
partitions on each in an identical layout.  We sat all(!) partitions
to type 'FD'.  We created the MDs and created three ext3 and one
swap (all on top of MD).  We would like to have XFS, but it was not
in the menu, but that't not a big issue.  Problems:

1. We were not able to create all MDs from the menu.  At the
   beginning, the first partition of the first SCSI disk did not
   appear in the d-i menu.  We created all with mdadm.

2. Deleting MDs from d-i didn't work.  The MDs always showed up
   again and again!

3. The installation of the kernel failed completely with sth. like
   /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine root device.

We tried to disable the first MD (not possible from the menu, but
mdadm worked), and did / with ext3 and without RAID1, but error
(3.) still appeared.  What's wrong with my setup?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Cheers, WB