Bug#417937: debian-installer does not support raid10 for partitioning
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/
Date: 03 Apr 2007
Machine: Supermicro PDSMi-based rackmount system
Processor: Core2Duo Xeon 2.4GHz
Memory: 4GiB
Partitions: No partitions were created because didn't get that far
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Ditto
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Installer offers to create software RAID arrays from partitions
marked as RAID members, but does not support raid10 which was a
show-stopper for the installation of this server with 4 disks,
intended to be almost entirely on raid10.
Switching to a terminal and issuing lsmod I could see the raid0, 1
and 5 modules loaded but no raid10. raid10 module was also not
present in the filesystem so I assume it is not supported.
Of course it is not possible to boot from raid10, which is why I
intended to create a small /boot in raid1, but I wanted everything
else in raid10.
In the end I booted from a livecd and installed by debootstrap.
Obviously a bit of a fringe case, but "it would be nice".
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