Bug#320660: INSTALL REPORT
Frans Pop wrote:
> retitle 320660 Problems using external firewire Plextor CD/DVD thanks
>
> On Sunday 31 July 2005 11:27, Remko Bolt wrote:
>> I wanted quite a complicated setup wich I had read wasn't supported
>> (and didn't expect it to be). Allthough both MD and LVM were
>> supported but not LVM on MD.
>
> That _is_ supported and should not give any problems, especially with
> / (or /boot) on a separated partition. Even / and /boot on LVM over
> RAID will work although you may need to set up your bootloader
> manually.
I read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251905 and I
didn't want to go through all that, especially because I'm not familiar
with grub. Only tried it on the side, after I had the md's set up I
couldn't get back to set up the lvm's. Take note however that I didn't
use the latest and greatest installer.
One thing that might be a (small) new bug, I just thought about, I
noticed that I could only select partitions for use with md's, not whole
disks, like I did with hd[eg]
>> During CD detection my external firewire Plextor CD/DVD `DVDR
>> PX-504A' was not found. Allthough with the 2.4 kernel it could be
>> manually loaded with `echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" >
>> /proc/scsi/scsi' and with the 2.6 kernel it could be mounted
>> straight away. The 2.6 kernel would freeze during use of the
>> plextor.
>
> I'll leave the report open for this issue, although I don't expect we
> will be able to do much about it.
The only thing that's relevant for the installation, to my humble
opinion, is that with a 2.6 install, I would expect it to show up during
the `probe for CD players', since I could mount it without any problems
with `mount /dev/scd0 /mnt'. I wouldn't dare to blame the fact that the
kernel freezes on the installer. I'll play with 2.6 and see if I can
give any helpful feedback to the driver developers.
> It looks like you used an older image that has 2.4.27 as default and
> 2.6.8 as alternative. Could you also try a daily netinst CD which has
> 2.6.11 (and in a few days 2.6.12) as default?
I'm pretty glad I have things up and running again, and not looking
forward to any more downtime :-) sorry.
Good to see people are really jumping this stuff,
I love Debian!
Cheers,
Remko
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