And one more. I think this most accurately describes the problem I ran into.
----- Forwarded message from Marco van Zwetselaar <[email protected]> ----- From: Marco van Zwetselaar <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New value of cksum for mtdblock0 on QNAP-409 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:59:09 +0100 To: Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> [...] About the 409 installation Installation on the 409 turned out to be trickier than on the 109. It seems d-i makes every attempt to reuse the existing RAID and non-RAID partitions, even after I deleted all of them in the "Partitioning Disks" menu. I could not remove the pre-existing RAID partitions (md0,4,9,13). So I repartitioned my 4 disks first, and allocated them for use as physical RAID volumes. Then, I could delete the four QNAP md-partitions. However, upon creating my new md-partitions, the software RAID configuration menu was all mixed up about their sizes and types (RAID1 vs 5). It seems it kept believing in (parts of) QNAP's original RAID configuration. My eventual workaround was to install Debian on just the first disk, without any RAID enabled. Then start a fresh install. This time things seem to be working out fine. It's just horridly slow, perhaps because the machine is busy resyncing the (huge) RAID5 partition in the background. Best regards, Marco ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
