Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on my QNAP TS-419P four-drive NAS box, using four 2TB disks.
These four disks lie about their hardware sector size (4kb disks claiming 512b) so I want to do the partitioning by hand. I've used the following commands, where sgdisk is a locally-built version of gdisk 0.6.9 from mentors.debian.net: === # Create GPT partition starting at 1MB and using the whole disk, aligning partition to 1MB offsets, marked as Linux RAID LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/usr/lib:/mnt/lib ./sgdisk -a 2048 -o -n 1:2048:3907029134 -t 1:fd00 /dev/sda LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/usr/lib:/mnt/lib ./sgdisk -a 2048 -o -n 1:2048:3907029134 -t 1:fd00 /dev/sdb LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/usr/lib:/mnt/lib ./sgdisk -a 2048 -o -n 1:2048:3907029134 -t 1:fd00 /dev/sdc LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/usr/lib:/mnt/lib ./sgdisk -a 2048 -o -n 1:2048:3907029134 -t 1:fd00 /dev/sda # Get rid of previous attempts mdadm --misc --zero-superblock /dev/sda1 mdadm --misc --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1 mdadm --misc --zero-superblock /dev/sdc1 mdadm --misc --zero-superblock /dev/sdd1 # haruka is the name of this box mdadm --create /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 4 -c 128 -e 1.0 --name=haruka --homehost=haruka /dev/sd[abcd]1 pvcreate /dev/md0 --dataalignment 4096 vgcreate haruka /dev/md0 lvcreate -L 2TB -n home haruka lvcreate -L 3TB -n srv haruka lvcreate -L 1GB -n swap haruka lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n root haruka mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stride=32,stripe-width=96 /dev/mapper/haruka-root -L root mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stride=32,stripe-width=96 /dev/mapper/haruka-home -L home mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stride=32,stripe-width=96 /dev/mapper/haruka-srv -L srv mkswap /dev/mapper/haruka-swap === However, when I run the partition disks stage of debian-installer, I get a couple of errors: partition length of 11721079296 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 partition length of 6442450944 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 (I suspect the former is the md device, the latter is the haruka-srv lv, see below) Ignoring those errors, I get to the partman dialog screen, and it sees my created partitions, but not the ext4 filesystems or swap filesystem therein. I was really hoping to be able to tell partman where to mount those drives, but to not reformat the disks itself, since I've already formatted them with the right stride and stripe-width. Failing that, I could just mount the disks on /target, install the base system, and create my fstab by hand later if I could work out how to tell the installer that partitioning is complete... One more datapoint, I was poking around in the shell (and now the partitioning menu entry scans partitions and just returns to the menu so I'll have to restart debian-installer I suspect) and found this: /usr/lib/partconf # ./find-partitions Error: partition length of 6442450944 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of what could be useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to [email protected] containing at least the version (2.3) and the following message: Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1548 in function ped_disk_next_partition() failed. Aborted /bin # partmap /dev/sda gpt /bin # partmap /dev/sdb gpt /bin # partmap /dev/sdc gpt /bin # partmap /dev/sdd gpt /bin # partmap /dev/md0 Error: /dev/md0: unrecognised disk label /bin # partmap /dev/mapper/haruka-root loop /bin # partmap /dev/mapper/haruka-srv Error: partition length of 6442450944 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 /bin # partmap /dev/mapper/haruka-home Error: partition length of 4294967296 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 /bin # partmap /dev/mapper/haruka-swap loop -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
