Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread trouble daemon
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Because you used old fdisk (or new fdisk in dos mode), and it is paying > attention to CHS information. Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. > The world has changed, and left CHS crap behind, as well as the hacks > fr

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: > >> So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating > >> broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAI

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread trouble daemon
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: >> So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating >> broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAID > > No, it is creating perfectly fine LBA partition

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: > So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating > broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAID No, it is creating perfectly fine LBA partition tables that are aligned to 1MiB boundaries. > controllers (google to get a

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Proulx
trouble daemon wrote: > 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. The current wisdom of partitioning is changing. The debian-installer is following t

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-12 Thread trouble daemon
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 wrote: > Heya folks \o > > I am sending to the mailing list since I am not exactly sure about > which package to file the bug