Debian and dmraid... is it possible to install?
Emiliano
skywalk3r at fastwebnet.it
Fri Jul 22 13:40:17 UTC 2005
Alle 08:43, venerdì 22 luglio 2005, Albert Dengg ha scritto:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:24:49 +0200
osito
>
> hi
> well i don't know if it is possible with d-i, but doing a chroot install
> should be possible
> (you already seem to have a bootloader installed, so there should be no
> problems)
> like discribed here for example
> (ok, it is for woody, but that is just a matter of s/woody/sarge/)+
> http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html
> (should be possible from gentoo to....)
>
>
> i have not tried it to set up a dmraid setup
> (i have not tried that at all-my only ataraid install used a 2.4
> kernel...)
>
> but it should work with some customizing i think
Thank you very much for those info.
Eventually, after other tries, I got this ("better") error:
mkinitrd: unkown DM device xx:xx (these where actual minor major numbers).
it seems it can't find something to cope with /dev/mapper/sil...
So I changed the beginning of the script to:
echo $1 $2
exit 0
and noticed it would create the file /boot/initrd.img....new
I used the gentoo initrd (with dmraid) and copied where appropriate, also
copied the modified mkinitrd on a floppy and copied it back on /usr/sbin "on
the fly" just after kernel image installation.....
Installation of the base system then went on ok and concluded (initrd renamed
initrd.img.....new to initrd.img-2... and complained about grub, but this was
OK for the installer).
In the end I have a working system, BUT I can't login with a normal user
account and X server... "/dev/null" permission denied, then chmod
+666 /dev/null and still other errors...
I'll now try as you suggested: chroot into debian partiton and installation
from there.
Regards
Emiliano
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