Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-23 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Giuseppe Iuculano ha scritto: > Tested, unfortunately root is empty: Hi, attached debdiff fixes the root detection, can you review it please? Giuseppe diff -Nru grub-installer-1.34/debian/changelog grub-installer-1.35/debian/changelog --- grub-installer-1.34/debian/changelog2008-09-22

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-23 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: > I've not tested os-prober functionality for dmraid. Tested, unfortunately root is empty: # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/mapper/sil_aiahbgbgaaaj1. title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686 (

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > The changes have now been committed as revisions r55850 to r55856. The > first commit is a semi-related bug fix. The second and last commits are > basically your work with a few minor cleanups. The other commits are > improvements by me created while

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Giuseppe Iuculano ha scritto: > I'm working on this, but it is not very simple for me. > Approximately "dmraid -rD" generates three files, from this we can extrapolate > metadata, and with a hex editor we can add the fake signature to the > qemu/virtualbox drive Ok,this procedure seems to work for

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: > On Sunday 07 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: >> I've done some testing using Giuseppe's businesscard image in >> VirtualBox ... > > I was very surprised that you don't actually need BIOS support for dmraid. > Apparently it really only scans the harddisks for some specific

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: > changes merged for Lenny. This means the following actions are needed: > - get an OK for the change in devicemapper from maintainer and RT > - get an OK for the change in parted from RT (and maybe check that the > patch will also get accepted upstream?) > - get updated de

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 07 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > I've done some testing using Giuseppe's businesscard image in > VirtualBox ... I was very surprised that you don't actually need BIOS support for dmraid. Apparently it really only scans the harddisks for some specific headers and bases the rest on

Bug#497110: improved dmraid support in D-I

2008-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
In an effort to reduce the indentation in my MUA for this thread I'm starting from the top :-) I've done some testing using Giuseppe's businesscard image in VirtualBox and based on the results I've made some additional changes. The end results of the tests are excellent: - I have seen no proble