Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Simon Heywood wrote:
> I've had no end of trouble with SILO and RAID-1. On my first few
> attempts to install Debian on the Netra, I ran into what I thought was a
> bug in silo.c, and hacking around with it produced varying degrees of
> success. As far as I can tell, the problem resulted from trying to
> install the boot block for a degraded /boot array (only /dev/sdb1
> active).
>
> Anyway, using the method I described in my previous post, the SILO
> installation worked fine. I can boot from disk0:3 or disk1:3, which is
> what I wanted all along (the system can completely survive the loss of
> one disk).
>
> S.
I manually got a pair of RAID-1 devices and some LVM configured, finally.
I had two small partitions for /boot (sda1/b1 = md0), and two more for
the logical volumes (md1). I tricked d-i into using them (I honestly
don't even recall now how I did that), and it installed the base system
onto my new filesystems. Even SILO was quite happy to use the RAID
device; I was able to 'boot disk0' or 'boot disk1' from OBP with
identical results. However, the new setup absolutely will *not*
complete a boot.
Boot process proceeds until it's time to detect and mount the LV's; I
get dozens of devfs errors:
devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to
parent for /disc
then the system attempts to proceed, seems mostly okay, then init shuts
down my serial console with "/bin/sh: line 1: /dev/pts/0: No such file
or directory". I have to manually power cycle the box, as it won't even
let me send a break to return to OBP. Ugh.
I'll try your suggestion next, probably tomorrow.
--
Adam
wolf@fyrestorm.com
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