Re: md (software) RAID missing in the installer for sparc

[Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:26:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> >   [ Fabio M. Di Nitto ]
> >   * RAID cannot be selected if we are on sparc AND the partiton starts at 0
> >     otherwise there will partition table corruption happening in the first
> >     512 bytes of the disk.
> 
> I found another bit of info, from Fabio:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/silo/+bug/66727/comments/2
> 
> (Upon further meddling with my setup, I managed to make my system unbootable
> again, so I'm still investigating :)

I wasn't able to reproduce the working condition with a 3.5 GB root (/) md0
partition, or a 2 GB root md0. :( I've finally created a 256 MB /boot md0,
and a 5 GB root (/) md1 partition, and finally PROM found SILO.

Someone who knows PROM and/or SILO could explain which of those variables
causes the boot process to fail.

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