Bug#608965: installation-reports: Squeeze Beta2 Net Install RAID6 not created but no error displayed
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta2-i386-netinst.iso
Date: January 4, 2011
Machine: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
/dev/sda1 RAID 250GB
/dev/sdb1 RAID 250GB
/dev/sdc1 RAID 250GB
/dev/sdd1 RAID 250GB
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: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
>From the manual partition screen I created four partitions across four
drives all 250GB and all "use as physical volume for RAID" with bootable
flag on.
I chose Configure software RAID and then selected RAID6.
I selected /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 (the four 250GB RAID
partitions) as the active devices and selected nothing for the
single spare device (which I intend to add later.)
Result: While it appears to create a RAID device and takes you back to
the software RAID configuration menu. When you say finish and go back to
the main manual partitioning screen, there is no /dev/md0 device listed
(or any RAID device at all). It just fails to create it, but does so
silently without giving any error.
Expected Result: There should have been a /dev/md0 device created or an
error should have been reported.
Note: I was able to go to the shell and manually create a RAID6 from
there and then return to the manual partition screen and it finally
showed up. The command I used was, iirc:
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=6 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1
/dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 --spare-devices=1 missing
Then I was able to create LVM on top of the RAID and proceed, although
it did ultimately fail at software install. I'm wondering if this might
be because the RAID array is not done building yet (as reported by cat
/proc/mdstat from a shell, so I'm going to let it finish and try the
software install again.
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