On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:24, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > I have just tried to make this (LVM on crypto partition on top of real > > hardware RAID) work by doing an Etch install (which works) and then > > dist-upgrading to lenny. That doesn't work, and one ends up with the > > same unbootable system as in the original bug report. > > This sounds like a known issue documented at [1]. > See also the BRs listed on that page. > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/RAIDvsCrypto This may appear similar *but* Etch works while lenny does not so it's a different bug (or perhaps because this is real *hardware* RAID it is only partially affected by whatever is causing the problems with crypto on software RAID). In any event my main concern with this bug is that when it comes to upgrade to lenny my system will break (since I'll be using Etch until lenny is released). I'll keep some space available for testing lenny, but as long as it works by release time I'm happy. Later today I will check to see of crypttab is not written, but the message '/dev/sdb1 doesn't exist' seems to indicate that the driver for the SCSI RAID card isn't loaded before /dev/sdb is accessed (if the driver is loaded this shouldn't happen as there is no additional work required to have sdb1 show up, unlike software RAID). It is also true that the megaraid_mbox initialization messages about the logical disks aren't display until after /dev/sdb1 isn't found and cryptsetup fails. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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