On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 19:37:37 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> While working through the debian-cd testing checklist I tried to install
> from the copy of d-i on the XFCE live image, onto a (degraded) RAID1 array
> with a single JFS partition that is the root filesystem.
I retried installation with a less ambitious interpretation of the desired
install scenario, which is apparently what debian-cd testers have always
been doing for this scenario in practice in the past:
sdb
|-sdb1 1G ext4 on /boot
`-sdb2 ~ 148G (rest of disk) degraded RAID1
`-md0 JFS on /
and that installed successfully.
If I was installing a system with RAID, LVM and/or exotic filesystems
for actual productive use, then I'd always allocate a separate ext* /boot
like this to keep things on more robust and widely-tested code paths,
so I don't think it's necessarily a real bug that the version trying
to boot directly from the JFS RAID array didn't work.
smcv
