Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1
From: John Summerfield (debian_at_ComputerDatasafe.com.au)
Date: 07/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:41:03 +0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Paul Gear wrote:
>John Summerfield wrote:
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>>>>>Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm a Red Hat refugee trying
>>>>>to install Sarge, without much success so far. I posted the message
>>>>>below on debian-boot without any response. I've also searched the
>>>>>debian-user archives without result.
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>BTW, i'm not particularly worried about the installer side of things, as
>long as i can get my mkinitrd working OK. Any thoughts on that?
>Details included again below...
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>>4. Install latest Sarge snapshot to standard ATA drive. Set up RAID
>>devices (md0 = 1 Gb /boot, md1 = 4 Gb swap, md2 = 195 Gb /), rsync ATA
>>partition to SATA partitions, chroot to target partitions and run LILO.
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>>This method seems to be on the verge of working, but when i boot
>>from the /boot partition, it can't mount md2 on /. I can boot from the
>>SATA /boot and use the ATA /. It seems the md devices aren't started,
>>and i can't work out how to include them in the initrd. On RH, you
>>could just specify preload modules on the mkinitrd command line, but
>>that doesn't seem to be the case here. I added raid1 and md to
>>/etc/mkinitrd/modules, but that doesn't help.
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>>>How do i do that? I've never run a serial console on a Linux box.
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>>Try reading the installation documents:-)
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>You mean the ones that only apply to Woody and kernel 2.4? :-)
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No no. Find the debian-installer home page - the links _are_ there on
the Debian home page:-)
Even so, those would do I should think.
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>>And man bootparam
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>Mine (Red Hat 9) doesn't say anything about serial consoles.
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Oh. It is a bit old. See
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.18/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz
Actually, I think the RHL docs might be better in this matter, if you
look at the right one. For sure, I've seen better than this snipped.
console= [KNL] output console + comm spec (speed, control,
parity).
Basically, you connect two machines using a null-modem cable attached to
their serial ports. On one, you listen (and drive if you want) with a
terminal program such as minicom. The other, you tell the kernel to use
the serial port as its console.
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