Package: debian-installer Tags: patch This is a metabug for other bugs I filed against grub-installer, partman-auto, partman-base, mdadm and lvm2.
I noticed that linux mdraid has working support for Intel Matrix Raid (aka Intel Rapid Storage Technology), called "imsm" in mdadm. This is a form of fakeraid, like dmraid. Dmraid has never been really supported in Debian, and upstream development has also ceased. It looks like mdraid is the way forward. I have added support for installing on mdraid based Intel Matrix raid to the debian-installer, the lvm2 package, and mdadm. With these patches applied I can install and boot Debian Wheezy without any trouble on an Intel Matrix RAID RAID1 array - even when combined with lvm. Patches are available, the bug reports will be tagged as blocking for this metabug, and are: grub-installer: - also detect mdadm fakeraid underneath lvm, if it's just one array - install grub on each disk of the underlying array - add md/0 entry to device.map so grub-probe works (for upgrades etc) partman-auto: - don't hide /dev/md* arrays if they are provisioned on whole-disk devices - in that case the md array itself is partitionable, e.g. for md-fakeraid like imsm (Intel Matrix raid). partman-base: - init.d/parted: Skip devices that are part of a mdraid device lvm2: - lvm2 already filters mdraid superblocks, now also filter IMSM superblocks Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org