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Debian Lenny Installer and RAID 5
Posted by sefarlow on Sun 12 Apr 2009 at 01:58
I have followed the procedure outlined in the article http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/512, Software RAID5 and LVM with the Etch Installer, TWICE and the install hangs up at the stage where it is Install and Configure SOftware! Earlier, during the paritioning and setting up RAID 1 and RAID 5 and LVM, a got a message that the system should be rebooted so it will be aware of the partitions. I did not do that, as it was not mentioned in the article. What am I doing wrong? I am installing on a Dell Poweredge 2550 using 4 73gB SCSI drives.I have re-low-level formatted all 4 drives and am awaiting guidance to accomplish this install. Thank you so much!
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If you change the partition tables, try running "partprobe" (part of parted) - that kicks the kernel to rescan the partition table and has always worked for me. (i.e. the /dev/* devices are created)
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The installer is menu driven. How would I do this?
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If you press Alt-F2 then you can get a terminal login and type in the partprobe command there. To be honest, you shouldn't need to - the installer should effectively do this for you. Might be worth trying it and if you can confirm that it fixes it for you, then it would be great if you could raise a bug about it - then hopefully no-one else will have to suffer!
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