Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers
Oops, almost forgot to mention that it was Debian Squeeze 6.0.2! Let
me know if you need any more info or tests etc. Cya \o
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:41 PM, trouble daemon <troubledaemon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya folks \o
>
> I am sending to the mailing list since I am not exactly sure about
> which package to file the bug against. It seems like it should be the
> debian-installer, but I don't know if maybe there are sub categories
> like partman or something that it should be filled under.
>
> Anyways, the problem is that when I use the guided partitioning (tried
> with and without encrypted+lvm), `fdisk -l` makes mention of a bad
> partition table since sda1 isn't on a boundary. Alooking at tty4 I can
> also see that the megaraid driver complains every time I do an `fdisk
> -l` that the drive on channel zero doesn't have a valid partition on
> it. After a reboot, sure enough, I get a grub error about "out of
> disk" and it just sits as a rescue prompt.
>
> I poked around a bit and used the live cd and was able to mount and
> luksOpen and vgscan etc, all the devices and read/write to them fine
> in a chroot from the live cd even. After another few attempts, I
> noticed that if I erased the partition in the command line on tty2 of
> the installer and manually created it properly (to avoid boot
> partition not being on a boundary), I was able to manually tell the
> installer to use the existing partitions, install and then reboot fine
> into the new install.
>
> So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating
> broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAID
> controllers (google to get an idea of just how many). I should also
> note that I have a near identical machine with a similar RAID card
> (shows as AMI instead of LSI iirc), but this other card which is using
> an identical raid setup, doesn't seem to have a problem with the
> partitioning, yet the PERC2 one does. Very hit an miss I guess.
>
> Anyways, I hope this gets the attention of some of the installer gurus
> out there and possibly point me in the right direction so that this
> can be resolved properly. Keep up the great work! \m/
>
>
> troubled
>
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