On Friday 11 February 2005 21:48, Michael Lueck wrote: > The Sarge install docs do not cover the initial setup of software RAID > via the installer text UI. After much struggle I think I got it AFAIK the installation manual is the only documentation we currently have on sw raid installation. > configured correctly. However LILO refuses to install, and GRUB (not > suggested with XFS per the installer) has been stuck at the 50% > progress point for a LONG time now. It says in messages that it is > checking through the devices to figure out the BIOS configuration for > the drives. I suspect it does not like having the root file system on a > mirror / SW RAID device. Thus, need some docs. Can I mirror all > partitions, or must some (a small /boot partition) be non-mirror and > thus not protected by RAID against HDD failures? What about swap? I suggest you try running the grub installation process with 'set -x' in /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.postinst and in /target/sbin/update-grub. That should show you exactly where the process is stuck and help us fix it. Cheers, FJP
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