Oops, almost forgot to mention that it was Debian Squeeze 6.0.2! Let me know if you need any more info or tests etc. Cya \o
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:41 PM, trouble daemon <troubledae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Heya folks \o > > I am sending to the mailing list since I am not exactly sure about > which package to file the bug against. It seems like it should be the > debian-installer, but I don't know if maybe there are sub categories > like partman or something that it should be filled under. > > Anyways, the problem is that when I use the guided partitioning (tried > with and without encrypted+lvm), `fdisk -l` makes mention of a bad > partition table since sda1 isn't on a boundary. Alooking at tty4 I can > also see that the megaraid driver complains every time I do an `fdisk > -l` that the drive on channel zero doesn't have a valid partition on > it. After a reboot, sure enough, I get a grub error about "out of > disk" and it just sits as a rescue prompt. > > I poked around a bit and used the live cd and was able to mount and > luksOpen and vgscan etc, all the devices and read/write to them fine > in a chroot from the live cd even. After another few attempts, I > noticed that if I erased the partition in the command line on tty2 of > the installer and manually created it properly (to avoid boot > partition not being on a boundary), I was able to manually tell the > installer to use the existing partitions, install and then reboot fine > into the new install. > > So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating > broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAID > controllers (google to get an idea of just how many). I should also > note that I have a near identical machine with a similar RAID card > (shows as AMI instead of LSI iirc), but this other card which is using > an identical raid setup, doesn't seem to have a problem with the > partitioning, yet the PERC2 one does. Very hit an miss I guess. > > Anyways, I hope this gets the attention of some of the installer gurus > out there and possibly point me in the right direction so that this > can be resolved properly. Keep up the great work! \m/ > > > troubled > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAK82gMEiy-5md94q9WfS66h9Lw9544=zui=cmqgweufrd42...@mail.gmail.com
