Bug#354991: installation-report: Partman fails to detect windows LDM partitions
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:14, Philip Armstrong wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > Partman can't see the windows dynamic disk partitions, even though the
> > kernel can.
>
> What do you mean by "dynamic partitions"? Do you mean you have them set up
> as RAID in the BIOS (dmraid)? In that case that is indeed not supported
> by the installer currently.
No, they're in the new (not so very new now) windows partition
format. Nothing to do with dmraid.
It does happen that Windows will only software raid partitions which
are in the LDM (Logical Disk Manager) format, which I suppose it might
be nice if dmraid could detect (it can't at the moment) but that's not
relevant to this problem.
I got around it by switching to a shell, using debootstrap to install
& then chrooting in & making the system bootable by installing a
kernel, lilo etc etc.
It just seems unfortunate that there's a lovely set of kernel device
nodes that I could use, if only I could get to them in the installer.
cheers, Phil
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