Bug#512427: installation-reports: investigating mini-i386.iso menu functionality - installation on a SATA bios raid0 stripe
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Machine: generic D865PERLK P4 3GHz 512 L2, 1GB pc3200, onboard GB-lan, audio, Winfast Gforce-256 32MB ddr, Winfast 2000tv, Istor SATA RAID, 2 - Western Digital 120GB ATA/100, NEC 16x DVD-RW, SONY 16x DVD-RW
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
sfdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 30 31- 248976 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 31 67 37 297202+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 68 110 43 345397+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 111 29185 29075 233544937+ 5 Extended
Disk /dev/sdb: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-1: 29186 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/dm-1p1 * 0+ 30 31- 248976 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p2 31 67 37 297202+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p3 68 110 43 345397+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p4 111 29185 29075 233544937+ 5 Extended
/dev/dm-1p5 111+ 1569 1459- 11719386 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p6 1570+ 4365 2796- 22458838+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p7 4366+ 7161 2796- 22458838+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p8 7162+ 9957 2796- 22458838+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p9 9958+ 12753 2796- 22458838+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p10 12754+ 15549 2796- 22458838+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p11 15550+ 18345 2796- 22458838+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p12 18346+ 21141 2796- 22458838+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p13 21142+ 25153 4012- 32226358+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p14 25154+ 29043 3890- 31246393+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-1p15 29044+ 29185 142- 1140583+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/dm-0: 30 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-2: 37 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-3: 43 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-4: 1458 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-5: 2795 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-6: 2795 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-7: 2795 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-8: 2795 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-10: 2795 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-9: 2795 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-11: 2795 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-12: 4011 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-13: 3889 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-14: 141 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-15: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/dm-15p1 * 0+ 30 31- 248976 83 Linux
/dev/dm-15p2 31 67 37 297202+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-15p3 68 110 43 345397+ 83 Linux
/dev/dm-15p4 111 29185 29075 233544937+ 5 Extended
Disk /dev/dm-16: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-17: 30 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-18: 37 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/dm-19: 43 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
df -hlT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/isw_cabeaigada_isto5
xfs 12G 3.0G 8.3G 27% /
tmpfs tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10M 176K 9.9M 2% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/isw_cabeaigada_isto1
ext3 236M 22M 202M 10% /boot
Initially I started the installer in expert mode priority low and dmraid
true. IIRC the main menu didn't show up until after partman when I
switched to multipath support. I used guided partitioning with LVM. I
was in new territory both with the installer in expert mode and finding
the right settings to get the installer to work with me.
The finished installation didn't boot- grub error 2.
I reboot in rescue mode 3 times in all finally finishing the
installation in rescue mode.I took a look around the filesystem and
chroot(ed) in rescue mode.
I got stuck with libc6 - finally erasing the partition and continuing.
I rebooted again in rescue mode but didn't offer the dmraid option. So I
rebooted in rescue mode again using the dmraid option.
The installer kept trying to mount /dev/sda1 on /target when
entering "rescue"? from the main menu and failing, obviously - or is it?
I finally went back to partman deleted all partitions except the first
one. and repartitioned the way I like it. /boot on the first partition
and / of the first logical partition. After this step the installer
seemed to go into auto mode for the final steps of the installation.
It was a VERY noticable difference. I recieved the grub message about
loading into raid being experimental, tapped the enter key finishing the
install rebooted and got Grub error 2. I went into the bios and changed
the boot order. - rebooted, than had to change the ATA legacy/enhanced
setting - rebooted and had to change the settings again to get the RAID
maintenance menu showing at bootup and finally Grub found the kernel and
booted without a hitch.
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