Hello Luke, Thank you for your mail. I implemented the current support in the installer during DebConf last year, more out of annoyance with the continuing stream of requests to support dmraid than out of any personal interest. By chance someone could make some hardware available to me for the duration of the conference. Yes, it was a huge hack (and I've always announced and documented it as such), but at least it made installing to dmraid an option and it provided a basis to improve support. Basically I am quite happy to see dmraid supported properly now, at least for partitioning. That still leaves bootloader support and bootloader installation essentially a hack, or do you have improvements for that too? I was a bit miffed at first when Giuseppe came up with your patches, but that lessened somewhat when I saw they were recent. However, given that Debian/I had done the initial support a mail to our list even just to announce that you were working on this would have been very much appreciated. I could possibly even have helped or simplified things for you in a few cases as obviously I know the partman side quite well. We're currently still waiting for Otavio to discuss the changes with the release team and give the go-ahead. After that getting the changes into SVN and uploaded for the installer should be very quick. On Monday 08 September 2008, Luke Yelavich wrote: > as well as making any changes I make for Ubuntu available for Debian now > and in the future. Please consider - at least when it comes to changes in the installer itself - to work directly in the Debian SVN repository. After all, keeping the diff between Debian/D-I and Ubuntu/D-I small only reduces effort when Ubuntu rebases on unstable for a new release. I'm quite sad to see the diff growing now that Colin Watson is less active when it comes to D-I. > I am also happy to test on real hardware, as I have a few PCI cards, as > well as a recent intel ICH9 board that I can test such configurations > as RAID 5, and possibly RAID10/01 if desired. That would be great. Question: how does booting from fakeraid work with e.g. RAID5? Reading the bootsector will work fine, but I don't see how grub can read its stage files from a RAID5 array. Cheers, FJP
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