installing on mdraid imsm arrays
On 08/13/2012 01:17 PM, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
At work, we're using mainly supermicro servers, and they have support in
the BIOS for Intel Matrix raid (imsm), which is a form of
sataraid/fakeraid.
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I now have a version of the wheezy installer that succesfully installs
and boots debian on a mdadm imsm array.
It took a while, but I have now filed bug reports against several
packages with all the patches and fixes that are needed to make this work.
699434: grub-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid
699432: partman-base: parted: skip devices that are part of a mdraid device
699431: partman-auto: don't hide whole-disk partitionable mdraid arrays
684712: lvm2: automatically filter imsm and ddf formatted disks
691710: unblock: mdadm/3.2.5-5
There is also a meta bug that is blocked by all of the above bugs:
699430: debian-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid (RST, imsm)
The patches/fixes are trivial, except for the grub-installer patch which
is slightly larger than the other ones, but I've taken care that it
doesn't actually change any existing behaviour if you are not installing
on a mdraid imsm array.
Mike.
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