Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308 While trying to perform some rescuing of a Debian Etch x86 system running with root-on-md (RAID1) (plus some other partitions with md RAID5), I tried to use the USB Debian Installer.
This was not as easy as I'd think it would be, because there's no /dev/md0 accessible from the installer shell. I actually got mdadm installed by starting the manual partition editor (guess I pulled in some md installer package) but there were still no /dev/md[0-9] device nodes around. Also I couldn't find any MAKEDEV script so creating them were not trivial. Finally I managed to put the correct md device files on a mountable file system and "cp -a" them into the running installer shell. So in summary, I'm submitting this bug report in the hopes that rescuing md systems can be made easier with the next version of the debian installer. PS: I also got a whole lot of scary messages in 'dmesg' when the debian-installer automatically tried to mount every partition to look for the .ISO file (it tried to mount the raw devices, which are part of undetected MD arrays). Hopefully the mounting done by the .ISO detector doesn't un-sync the arrays (does that make sense?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
