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Bug#392764: partman: [powerpc] RAID support is broken on powermac hardware (64bit, XServe G5)



On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:41:21AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:56:08PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Friday 13 October 2006 13:43, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > As the title says, an install on my XServe G5, with two brand new 320GB
> > > sata disks, fails. I can manually setup the RAID partitions, but when i
> > > go into the raid tool, it tells me something about the RAID flag not
> > > being found or something.
> > 
> > That is not very helpful. Please provide exact error message.
> 
> The exact message is :
> 
> Aucune partition de RAID disponible
> Aucune partition de type << Linux RAID Autodetect >> n'est disponible.
> Veuillez creer une partition de ce type ou supprimer un peripherique
> multidisque deja utilise pour en liberer les partitions.
> 
> Si vous utilisez de telles partitions, elle contiennenrt peut-etre des
> systemes de fichiers et ne peuvent donc pas etre utilisees par cet outil de
> configuration.
> 
> Well, i was able to create the array by hand yesterday, and also to create an
> array on part of the disk yesterday evening, but when i tried to create an
> array at the end of the disk, it had some problem on the end of the first
> disk, finding a partition of size 0 and exiting. So this may be related to
> that, i am not sure where this comes from, if it is a hardware problem with my
> disk (both are identic though, and brand new, need to check), or if it is a
> strange bug in mdadm.

No, didn't help, when i created a 100GB partition ignoring the last 250GB or
so. What is furthermore strange is that parted doesn't list the partitions by
hand in d-i, while they are ok in the installed system, and they are also ok
in the partman menu, and also show up after a reboot.

> > Please add 'set -x' in /lib/partman/definitions.sh, reproduce error and 
> > send full log (gzipped) to BR.
> 
> Will provide, not sure if it will bring more info than the above
> hand-investigated issue though.

Provided are the logs, well, i added the 'set -x' only after discovering the
problem in the first run, and then redoing the RAID thingy, but i hope this is
ok. Tell me if you need the log with the set -x of the full partitioning
process.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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