Bug#356989: installer fails on raid setup
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: 2006-02-20 version 31r1 from a random mirror
Date: 2006-03-14 12:00 UTC
Machine: random, consumer-grade, desktop parts
Processor: varied
Memory: varied
Partitions: 2 harddrives of different sizes, each with only an exactly
15 GB partition, bootable, for RAID. software RAID1 setup
with the two drives. RAID1 drive has a partition of 14.5 GB
as the first partition, bootable, defaults, ext3, mounted at
/. The reminding .5 GB as part5 is the swap partition.
variations on this pattern.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
not available or very applicable
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [?]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
the error is reported while making the filesystem, where tune2fs cannot
stat /dev/md/0p1, which ideed does not exist. cfdisk on /dev/md/0
shows the partitions as being there, but the entries in /dev for the
partitions seem not to have been created. i have tried rebooting after
creating the raid device, to no success. i tried creating the
partitioning and software RAID by hand, and went through the steps
without apparent problems, but that /dev/md/0p1 did not get created
automatically, and i became as if stumped.
i further tried it on two different systems with 5 different drives, in
total. notably, none of the drives were the same size, but i made sure
to make only a single partition of the exact same size an any two
drives i was testing with.
thanks for any help you can give.
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