Asus P5B Deluxe: /dev/mapper not available, dmraid -ay does _not_ help
Hardware:
Asus P5B Deluxe BIOS 0804
[with
Intel P965+ICH8R
JMicron JMB363
Marvell 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet
Marvell 88E8001 PCI Gigabit Ethernet
SoundMAX ADI1988
]
Intel Core2Duo E6700 (standard FSB 266 MHz)
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
2 GB DDR2-SDRAM (SPD setting)
2x Samsung SP2504C 250GB HDD @ P965 SATA port 1+2
Samsung SH-D163A DVD-ROM SATA @ P965 SATA port 3
BenQ DW-1640 DVD+-RW PATA, PATA-to-SATA adapter @ JMicron internal SATA port
(BenQ @ P965 SATA port 4 does not work:
XP setup delays, Vista setup freezes, a DVD cannot be read)
USB Stick (USB Mass Storage)
BIOS Setting:
P965 Raid 0: 2x250 = 500 GB (eff. about 465 GB) capacity
JMicron PATA/SATA: IDE (compatibility) mode
(needs JMicron compatible IDE driver under XP,
does not work with standard XP IDE driver)
Working OS: Windows XP Prof. 32 Bit, WXPPro 64 Bit, Windows Vista 32 Bit
(with 32 Bit and 64 Bit Intel RAID driver disks)
WinXPPro 32 Bit: Blue screen with ADI1988 sound driver, device disabled.
OS Distribution to install: Ubuntu Edgy i386 DVD
Marvell network adapter is not recognized.
My USB Stick is recognized.
I put the most recent Ubuntu Feisty dmraid packages and
dependencies onto the USB stick (details see below).
Steps:
- Boot from DVD, select text mode install
- Network error: Continue
- Partition disks: two separate disks shown => Go Back, into a shell
- Connected USB stick, waited > 10 s
- dmesg | more:
sdc: sdc1
# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
# cd root
# tar xvf /mnt/data/dmraid.tar
dmraid-udeb_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu1_i386.udeb
dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
libc6-udeb_2.5-0ubuntu5_i386.udeb
libc6_2.5-0ubuntu5_i386.deb
libdevmapper1.02-udeb_1.02.08-1ubuntu1_i386.udeb
libdevmapper1.02_1.02.08-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
libselinux1_1.32-3_i386.deb
libsepol1_1.14-2_i386.deb
# umount /mnt
# udpkg -i libc6-udeb_2.5-0ubuntu5_i386.udeb
(Reading database...)
(Updating database...)
# udpkg -i libdevmapper1.02-udeb_1.02.08-1ubuntu1_i386.udeb
(Reading database...)
(Updating database...)
# udpkg -i dmraid-udeb_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu1_i386.udeb
(Reading database...)
(Updating database...)
# dmraid -r
/dev/sda: isw, "isw_ddeheebhbf", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0
/dev/sdb: isw, "isw_ddeheebhbf", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0
# ls /dev/mapper
ls: /dev/mapper: No such file or directory
# dmraid -ay
# ls /dev/mapper
ls: /dev/mapper: No such file or directory
I am stuck with not seeing the mapper device. What can I do now?
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DMRAID stopped to work in kernels > 2.6.15
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54246
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