Hei hei, when using the current Debian installer for wheezy on a couple of machines lately I noticed something I would consider a bug. Let me first describe what I want to achieve. I could reproduce this on three different machines of different age with different number of hard disks but all i386 architecture, with normal install, graphical install and graphical expert install. I got >= 2 hard discs and like to setup as follows: First primary partition on each should be part of software RAID /dev/md0 which will be used as /boot formatted with ext3. (grub should be installed to /dev/sd?1 later). Second primary partition on each hard disk should be swap. Third primary partition on each hard disk should be part of a software RAID device level 1, 5 or 6 (irrelevant which) and be /dev/md1 later. /dev/md1 should be a physical device for LVM, this physical device will be part of one volume group. Two logical volumes will be created in this volume group, one for / and one for /home both formatted with ext4. What I did in the installer in manual partitioning: 1) create the primary partitions as above 2) configure raid 3) mark /dev/md0 to be formatted as ext3 and used as /boot 4) configure LVM with /dev/md1 as physical volume 5) mark the created logical volumes to be formatted as ext4 and used as / and /home Between step 3 and step 4 the installer forgets that /dev/md0 should be formatted and used as boot. I don't remember exactly if it already gets formatted before step 4 but this is irrelevant because it's not marked to be used as /boot after step 4 (or 5). If you don't notice this, system will install successfully but you end up with a not used /dev/md0 and having /boot inside the / logical volume, which I didn't want. As said above: I would consider this a bug, but I have no clue to which package I should report this. When answering please put me in Cc, I'm not on the debian-boot list. Greets Alex
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