Re: md (software) RAID missing in the installer for sparc
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:39:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting:
> [...]
> > | The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap
> > | writes from first block and avoid silo block. If swap begins on the
> > | cylinder 1, openprom cannot boot (ther is not MBR on sparc
> > | architecture).
> >
> > This was in reply to another person's question, and that person (who
> > had a problem) had swap as the first partition.
>
> I don't see how you conclude one from the other.
The man said that it works for him(tm)... that sounds relevant :)
> AFAIK RAID also writes its signatures on the first block and this causes
> the same problem as swap does. (No idea what "fd" stands for.)
fd is the partition table designation of a 'Linux raid autodetect' partition
(like 83 is ext2/3).
> The fact remains that RAID is only supported in D-I on partitions that do
> not start at the beginning of the disk.
I didn't notice it, because I went for the first partition, saw it was not
there, and didn't try for the rest. I can't imagine many other users doing
anything differently. Perhaps an error is in order, rather than omitting
the option altogether :)
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