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Greetings to all!
First of all, I hope not being OT nor asking something already
asked (I've searched much for this though...).
In short: I need to install Debian (via cds or net-install) on
an asus a7n8x with silicon image 3112 medley RAID, two maxtor 160 gb sata
disks.
I have Windows and a Gentoo up and working, but now I need
Debian. The latest distro (sarge stable) won't recognize the
array with kernel 2.6.8 nor with 2.4.27.
This is what I tried to do:
- booted gentoo, and copied dmraid and udev (+ libs) onto a
floppy
- booted minimally debian from cd
- mounted the floppy and copied all on the fly onto the
ramdisk
Then various (different) attempts:
- configure md via debian installer
- configure LVM as above
- modprobe dm-mod
...and then:
udev
dmraid -ay
Doing this I finally get all the partitions shown into
/dev/mapper/sil_xxx as with Gentoo, I can mount and format them, but this is the
error when I try to install the base system:
[installing kernel-2.6.8-386.deb]
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /dev/mapper/sil_xxxx9 is not a valid block
device.
[error message]
What can I do now?? What could this error mean? It is a
fatal error that won't quit the installation but would loop to "install base
system". Thank you for reading! ;)
Regards
Emiliano Esposito
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