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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: 2006-02-20 version 31r1 from a random mirror
Date: 2006-03-14 12:00 UTC
Machine: random, consumer-grade, desktop parts
Processor: varied
Memory: varied
Partitions: 2 harddrives of different sizes, each with only an exactly
15 GB partition, bootable, for RAID. software RAID1 setup
with the two drives. RAID1 drive has a partition of 14.5 GB
as the first partition, bootable, defaults, ext3, mounted at
/. The reminding .5 GB as part5 is the swap partition.
variations on this pattern.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
not available or very applicable
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [?]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
the error is reported while making the filesystem, where tune2fs cannot
stat /dev/md/0p1, which ideed does not exist. cfdisk on /dev/md/0
shows the partitions as being there, but the entries in /dev for the
partitions seem not to have been created. i have tried rebooting after
creating the raid device, to no success. i tried creating the
partitioning and software RAID by hand, and went through the steps
without apparent problems, but that /dev/md/0p1 did not get created
automatically, and i became as if stumped.
i further tried it on two different systems with 5 different drives, in
total. notably, none of the drives were the same size, but i made sure
to make only a single partition of the exact same size an any two
drives i was testing with.
thanks for any help you can give.
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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