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<DIV><FONT size=2>Greetings to all!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>First of all, I hope not being OT nor asking something already
asked (I've searched much for this though...).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>In short: I need to install Debian (via cds or net-install) on
an asus a7n8x with silicon image 3112 medley RAID, two maxtor 160 gb sata
disks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I have Windows and a Gentoo up and working, but now I need
Debian. </FONT><FONT size=2>The latest distro (sarge stable) won't recognize the
array with kernel 2.6.8 nor with 2.4.27. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>This is what I tried to do:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- booted gentoo, and copied dmraid and udev (+ libs) onto a
floppy</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- booted minimally debian from cd</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- mounted the floppy and copied all on the fly onto the
ramdisk</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Then various (different) attempts:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- configure md via debian installer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- configure LVM as above</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>- modprobe dm-mod</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>...and then:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>udev</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>dmraid -ay</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Doing this I finally get all the partitions shown into
/dev/mapper/sil_xxx as with Gentoo, I can mount and format them, but this is the
error when I try to install the base system:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>[installing kernel-2.6.8-386.deb]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /dev/mapper/sil_xxxx9 is not a valid block
device. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>[error message]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
<DIV><FONT size=2>What can I do now?? What could this error mean? It </FONT>is a
fatal error that won't quit the installation but would loop to "install base
system".</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you for reading! ;)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Emiliano Esposito</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>