On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:24:49 +0200 "Emiliano Esposito" <skywalk3r@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 hi well i don't know if it is possible with d-i, but doing a chroot install should be possible (you already seem to have a bootloader installed, so there should be no problems) like discribed here for example (ok, it is for woody, but that is just a matter of s/woody/sarge/)+ http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html (should be possible from gentoo to....) i have not tried it to set up a dmraid setup (i have not tried that at all-my only ataraid install used a 2.4 kernel...) but it should work with some customizing i think yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <a_d@xxxxxx>
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