Tonights results:
It is looking really good, all previous issues seem to be resolved except,
1. After completing a manual GUI install, the generated auto_inst.cfg file
has the following for the 'X' declaration:
'X' => {
'bios_vga_mode' => undef,
'resolution_wanted' => 1024,
'monitor' => {
'HorizSync' => '30-54',
'VideoRam_probed' => '8192',
'size' => '14.88',
'ModelName' => 'AOC SPECTRUM 5Elr & 5ElrA & 5E & 5EA',
'VendorName' => 'Plug\'n Play',
'manually_chosen' => 1,
'Identifier' => 'monitor1',
'EISA_ID' => 'aocd556',
'VertRefresh' => '50-120',
'dpms' => '1'
},
'default_depth' => 24
},
After completing an auto install using the above declaration, the generated
file contains the following:
'X' => {
'bios_vga_mode' => undef,
'resolution_wanted' => undef,
'monitor' => {
'HorizSync' => '30-54',
'VideoRam_probed' => '8192',
'size' => '14.88',
'ModelName' => 'AOC SPECTRUM 5Elr & 5ElrA & 5E & 5EA',
'VendorName' => 'Plug\'n Play',
'manually_chosen' => 1,
'Identifier' => 'monitor1',
'EISA_ID' => 'aocd556',
'VertRefresh' => '50-120',
'dpms' => '1'
},
'default_depth' => undef
},
Generating an Replay diskette with above results in the wrong depth and
resolution being used.
However, if I use the following, I get the proper resolution and depth:
'X' => {
'resolution_wanted' => '1024x768',
'default_depth' => 24
},
2. Tried out the RAID capability added to auto install but,
a) watched console 3 and saw that the defined partitions were created for
raid type and that the raid volume was formated ok.
b) on reboot, I get a kernel panic with messages as follows:
Uncompressing Linux .... Ok, booting the kernel
md: md0: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k md-personality-3, errno = 2
md: personality 3 is not loaded
md: md0: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2
Kernel panic: No init found ....
The following is the 'partitions' that I used:
'partitions' => [
{
'mntpoint' => '/boot',
'type' => 1155,
'size' => 96390
},
{
'mntpoint' => 'swap',
'type' => 130,
'size' => 578277
},
{
'mntpoint' => 'raid_a',
'size' => 1000 << 11,
'type' => 0xfd,
'ratio' => 1
},
{
'mntpoint' => 'raid_b',
'size' => 1000 << 11,
'type' => 0xfd,
'ratio' => 1
},
{
'mntpoint' => '/home',
'type' => 0x483,
'hd' => 'md0',
'level' => 1,
'parts' => 'raid_a raid_b'
},
{
'mntpoint' => '/',
'type' => 1155,
'size' => 775029,
'ratio' => 100
}
],
Funny thing is I can use the GUI to create the same raid volume and after
reboot everything starts. Although I do get the unclean message.
c) using the GUI, when the 'partitions' is placed in the auto_inst.cfg file,
the raid information is missing. So the file can not be used to recreate the
install.
more later ....
Dave
