You may want to look at Debug Bug #806900 and help the developers get it in shape. On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 08:49 +0100, Allan Jacobsen wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to set up a automatic PXE install of jessie on physical servers > connected to a SAN. > My problem is that multipath support seems to be very broken in jessie, and > after fixing the first problems, I am now stuck, as the install seems to work > but the server can not find its root filesystem after reboot. > > The first problem is that the multipath udeb is broken as described in bug > #779579, the bug is closed, but the problem is actually not fixed, so I have > opened a new bugreport #843885 to see if we can get it fixed for real. Maybe > it is fixed, but the fix has not been ported to the netboot images. > > The second problem is in the disk-detect udeb, which can not find the > multipath device that is found, the reason is a rename of mpath0-9 to mpatha- > z, there is a bug report for that #806713, and after that the parted-multipath > also needs to be patched for the same. > > Now the rest of the install seems to work fine, but after reboot, the server > will not start, as it can not find its root, the problem may have to do with > the naming of partitions as in this bug report #827308, but does that mean > that I will have to give up on getting jessie to install on multipath disks, > and wait for stretch ? > > Best regards > Allan Jacobsen -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me in replies for quicker response
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