Bug#330560: Partitioning fails when setting up software RAID during Sarge install
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 19:48, you wrote:
> > The servers have a pair of SATA drives which I am setting up in a level
> > 1 RAID array. Once I have created the md devices and assigned a
> > filesystem and mount point to the array I select the option to complete
> > paritioning and proceed. The installer then attempts to format each
> > partition but fails for the RAID array devices as it expects an device
> > name (/dev/md/0p1) that is inconsistent with the device node created by
> > devfs (/dev/md/0).
>
> Do you mean /dev/emd/0p1 for "Enhanced Metadisk RAID" by any chance?
> Otherwise this does not make sense.
No, it's definitely /dev/md/0p1. It's a straight forward level 1 RAID
array created from 2 partitions on the sda and sdb devices using the
installer. I actually created 6 arrays from partitions on sda an sdb and
had the same problem for each of them.
I used mknod to create the necessary device files to allow the installer
to complete like so:
mknod /dev/md/0p1 b 9 0
mknod /dev/md/1p1 b 9 1
...
Then I could proceed to allow the installer to format the partitions and
carry out the first stage install.
I agree that it doesn't make any sense.
> Could you give some more information on your system? Please send a full
> installation report [1] to this bug (330560@bugs.debian.org).
I'll do that separately.
> Could you also give some basic info on what EMD is and how it is setup?
I've no idea as I've never used it.
Jason Clifford
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