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install Sarge to /dev/hdi11 won't go (x86)

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install Sarge to /dev/hdi11 won't go (x86)

#1 Post by Guest »

I have an existing gentoo installed on a software raid setup.

One of my disks is much larger, so I thought I'd make a partition there
ext3, normal linux partition type, and install Debian on that. Once
that was working, I'd configure RAID, move my data from the existing
RAID5 and RAID1 partitions to where needed under /dev/hdi11, and
eventually move that back to newly set up RAID partitions where
the old ones were.

I didn't get very far. I ran the net install CD, which got to about 50%
of downloading packages and installing the base system, when it
said there was an error. With VT3 there was more detail. It said
that there was some sort of miss-match between the kernel
and the modules conf file, and I had to reboot soon so that it could
regenerate the modules.conf . It said not to reboot immediately, but to
reboot "soon" and stressed the importance of this.

I decided it was probably a weirdly worded warning, and tryed to
progress as if that had not appeared. It started the base install progress
bar from 0% and again bombed out at the same state. No matter what
option I picked from further down the menu, it always restarted the
base install, and failed with the same error at around 50% roughly.

I'm currently attacking this problem from debootstrap within Gentoo.
We'll see how that goes.

trave11er
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#2 Post by trave11er »

I guess that the problems you are experiencing might be due to the fact that the script which creates the device nodes during the base system install (/dev/MAKEDEV) only created devices up to hdh by default. See the bug 288129 and the bugs merged with it for details.

I don't know of a simple workaround. Is there a way for you to avoid installing into hdi and use some lower numbered disk instead?

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