issue with setup-storage, squeeze, and SW Raid1

[David Dreezer]

Oh, sure I can. It actually did work with the 3.3.5 with the disk-align.  I'll try today's 3.4.6 release, remove that part, and see what it does.



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On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Michael Tautschnig wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> Yes, that describes the issue perfectly.
>> 
>> Thus, at your suggestion I made the change to my SW_RAID config in disk_config file, which is to add in the "align-at":
>> 
>> disk_config disk1 align-at:32256B
>> 
>> This worked perfectly. The client installed and then booted, no problems. Again, this is 4.0~48 FAI with the 3.3.5 perl modules and setup-storage script copied into my nfsroot.
>> 
>> I then restored the 4.0~48 perl modules, setup-storage script, and lib files to my nfsroot and restarted the client. That worked just fine.
>> 
>> Next I transplanted the 3.4.5 perl modules, setup-storage script, and lib files to my nfsroot and restarted the client. No go.  fai.log shows my disk_config file then Error in task partition. Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task main
>> 
>> Now, this MAY be due to the fact that the FAI installation itself is 4.0~48 with a transplanted 3.4.5 setup-storage, yet with the 3.3.5 version transplanted in it worked just fine. Kind of odd.
>> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> I'm not sure I fully understood. I wouldn't quite expect the above disk_config
> line to work with any non-experimental version (if it does, it's rather a bug in
> the parser, meaning the parser isn't strict enough). For both 3.4.5 and 3.3.5,
> however, I would hope things work fine if you just remove the align-at:32256B
> part. Could you confirm that?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Michael
>