Re: Problem installing Raid + LVM system on new Dell T5500
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:59:20 -0400
S Scharf <ss11223@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a new Dell T5500 with two SATA disks (and a Dell Raid
> controller). The BIOS is set to revert to ATA disks if the
> 'hardware' Raid signature is not detected.
>
> I want to install testing with one large software Raid 1 partition as
> the physical drive for the LVM, (which will have a root and home
> partition) on it.
>
> The first time I installed, everything went well but on a subsequent
> re-boot (and probably after some updates) the system failed to
> boot with no /dev/md* devices created (so the LVM couldn't be mounted)
>
> (I also tried having the root partition in it's own raid partition,
> with the same results.)
>
> There seem to be some bug reports about 2.6.30 having problems with
> the fakeroot check (dmraid) blocking the mdraid detect.
> Stable uses 2.6.26 (which is before the reported problem) but that
> installer only wants to allow lilo and not grub2, which is needed
> for the configuration I desire.
>
> Anyone know of a work around to get this system running? (and what
> changed after my first install?)
>
> Stuart
Hi, Stuart
My system is still broke, running /md0 as / and /md1 for others under
lvm2.. see bug #545032.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545032
It's still broke...8-(
Jack
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