Bug#314634: marked as done (over 8 scsi drives in a raid array breaks initrd creation)
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Subject: over 8 scsi drives in a raid array breaks initrd creation
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Package: installation-reports
Version: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
Severity: important
I installed to xfs on a 10-disk software raid 5 array, and my hope was th=
at the
menus would be enough to get everything installed. When installing the ba=
se
packages, the kernel install never finished (like, over a day). Further
investigation shows that the mkinitrd script was getting hung (endless lo=
op)
when trying to figure out what it needed for my 9th and 10th drive. This =
is the
first place that the installer needs for sdi and sdk device nodes to exis=
t, and
it fails in a very ugly way. This seems to have been the only thing preve=
nting a
perfect, menu-only
After MAKEDEVing these last 2 drives, things work flawlessly, my initrd i=
s
generated, and it boots just fine.
Perhaps mkinitrd needs to detect when it has a device for which there is =
no
device node, or maybe something else in the installer needs to create the=
se
nodes.
Thanks, whoever looks at this,
Scott Gilliland
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From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#314634: over 8 scsi drives in a raid array breaks initrd creation
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> first place that the installer needs for sdi and sdk device nodes to exist, and
> it fails in a very ugly way. This seems to have been the only thing preventing a
> perfect, menu-only
This is a bug in the makedev package, which has already been recorded.
(not online, ATM, so I can't check the bug number now)
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