Bug#355580: Bug 355580: output of fdisk

[Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>]

maximilian attems wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> > I added this line to make certain that sata_promise loads before md 
> > loads. At one time I had trouble with getting the system to boot, and 
> > that line seemed to help by making certain the serial ATA drive module 
> > was loaded before md loaded.
>
> yes initrd-tools needed that workaround,
> i'm happy you managed to boot sata with it.
>
> please try to remove it,
> initramfs-tools should load sata_promise just fine.

Ok, I've tried that, see below.

However, if anyone ever has a legitimate reason to use "install," they 
will suffer a boot failure and they won't be able to figure out why 
there has been a failure.

> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *           1        2490    20000893+  fd  Linux raid 
> > autodetect
> > /dev/sda2            2491        2614      996030   fd  Linux raid 
> > autodetect
> > /dev/sda3            2615        9733    57183367+  fd  Linux raid 
> > autodetect
> > /dev/sda4            9734       14596    39062047+  fd  Linux raid 
> > autodetect
>
> from your previous sent fstab the forth entry is false
> could you please set it to linux 83
>
> that could potentially confuse mdrun,
> can you retry if fixing that works?

I set it to linux 83, took out all my modifications, and mdrun does 
work. After I end up in busybox, I looked at /proc/mdstat, and I saw 
that mdrun had created /dev/md/[012].

So mdrun continues to be confused by my configuration.

> cat /proc/mdstat would be even cooler.

Of course! Here it is:

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1]
md3 : active raid1 hda3[0] sda3[1]
      57183296 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md2 : active linear hda2[0] sda2[1]
      1991808 blocks 64k rounding

md1 : active raid1 hda1[0] sda1[1]
      20000768 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>


and as a bonus, the current fdisk:

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2490    20000893+  fd  Linux raid 
autodetect
/dev/sda2            2491        2614      996030   fd  Linux raid 
autodetect
/dev/sda3            2615        9733    57183367+  fd  Linux raid 
autodetect
/dev/sda4            9734       14596    39062047+  83  Linux

Thanks again for your help, and please let me know if you need further 
tests by me.


--
Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@pobox.com * www.pobox.com/~moshe
 "You may fire when ready, Gridley." -- Commodore George Dewey