Bug#513976: Problem with LVM (RC2 on Sparc)
Package: installation-reports
> Hello,
>
> The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and
> I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release.
>
> The images are available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_bibble/
>
> Please send feedback to the mailing list (even successful ones).
I had some problems installing RC2 on my Sparc (SunBlade 1000), when I
chose the Guided partitioning with LVM option. The machine failed to
boot after reboot at the end of the installation. It looks
like the LVM volumes are set up correctly, however the initramfs script
scripts/local-top/lvm2 which is supposed to start the volumes up is
not getting invoked. If I run it by hand, the device nodes in
/dev/mapper get created, and I can exit initramfs shell to
successfully complete the boot.
This machine needs firmware loaded from the USB stick, and this causes
(known?) issues: if I insert the stick to load the firmware, and then
remove it immediately after the loading step, the real disk is still
detected as /dev/sdb, and that's what gets written to the
configuration. So if I later boot without the stick, the disk is
detected as /dev/sda, causing problems. Amusingly, I can boot
when using LVM, because /boot is a separate (non-LVM) partition and is
only used to only read kernel and initrd, however filesystem check for
/dev/sdb1 (which is /boot) fails, as device does not exist.
Cheers.
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Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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