Package: installation-reports Version: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso Severity: important
I installed to xfs on a 10-disk software raid 5 array, and my hope was that the menus would be enough to get everything installed. When installing the base packages, the kernel install never finished (like, over a day). Further investigation shows that the mkinitrd script was getting hung (endless loop) when trying to figure out what it needed for my 9th and 10th drive. This is the first place that the installer needs for sdi and sdk device nodes to exist, and it fails in a very ugly way. This seems to have been the only thing preventing a perfect, menu-only After MAKEDEVing these last 2 drives, things work flawlessly, my initrd is generated, and it boots just fine. Perhaps mkinitrd needs to detect when it has a device for which there is no device node, or maybe something else in the installer needs to create these nodes. Thanks, whoever looks at this, Scott Gilliland --
