On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:41:37 +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-18 16:11]: >> > Is the d-i kernel really lacking device-mapper? >> >> Well it's the stock debian kernel. No idea.
>dm-mod is included in the md-modules udeb. That's true, the kernel (2.4.25-1-386) coming with the installer has the device-mapper module. However I tried loading it explicitly, but still evms does not find any drives to work on. This is contrast to when using my own 2.6.4 kernel. What I missed at my first try was mounting sysfs on /sys, which is required for evms on 2.6. The evms (& evmsn) as shipped in the netinst-iso from 20040316 works! (besides that wrong library link and missing ncurses). So there's not much to do on the evms itself, but make it startable from d-i. The rest is up to the kernel. Things were getting harder after setting up a root-volume with evms. First mount hangs when mounting a JFS from a disc volume with my kernel, mounting it from a file (-o loop) works, but this is not d-i specific (I think). Continued with XFS then. The next problem was how to let d-i know, that there is a readily prepared root fs. In woody I simply had to mount to /target and everything was fine, now I had to figure out, how to write a fake /etc/partman/fstab.d script just echoing my fstab entries. I think there should be ways to skip steps in d-i without having to fake that much. If I want to create my partitions manually I don't want to be forced to use d-i partman for creation of the mountpoints (btw partman didn't work with my kernel, just showed an empty list). Installing the base system shows a similar problem, since it tries to install kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 and fails on creation of the mkinitrd. I got my own kernel-package installed by hand, but was not able to do a base-install that leaves the kernel as it is and just do the rest... ...thus the system booted somehow (after I had prepared an initrd for evms and grub), but just stopped after entering runlevel 2. Probably some part of the base installation is still missing. In my opinion it should be able to have d-i skip some parts if somebody wants to. I don't like being forced to do everything by hand in such a case... And well, for curiosity I tried d-i's "install grub boot-loader" but all it did, was restarting base-install and failing again. A question whether I really want to skip preliminary steps would be more appropriate (at least in expert/low-priority mode). BTW these question priorities can be somewhat confusing. I think most people understand when you talk about beginner/advanced/ expert mode but probably misunderstand low/medium/high priority questions... Regards, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
