Bug#699430: debian-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid (RST, imsm)

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

On 01/31/2013 02:27 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 31.01.2013 16:14, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> []
> > I have added support for installing on mdraid based Intel Matrix
> > raid to the debian-installer, the lvm2 package, and mdadm.
> >
> > With these patches applied I can install and boot Debian Wheezy without
> > any trouble on an Intel Matrix RAID RAID1 array - even when
> > combined with lvm.
>
> Out of curiocity, did you actually test the latest mdadm package?
> I did a few more changes on top of your patch, but I don't have any
> hardware where I can try it, so I've no idea if it actually works
> or not...

Yes, I did. Yesterday I took the latest snapshot from the wheezy 
installer media, and replaced the debs/udebs with the ones that I 
updated, replaced mdadm with the latest version from unstable (-5), and 
built a new image.

It all worked fine, installing, booting, rebooting, etc.

Thanks,

Mike.