Installing Etch on Mac G4 RAID problems

manny534 · 07-21-2007, 11:52 AM

Hello everyone,

I wanted to install Debian on a Mac G4 I had sitting in the garage it has 2-250 GBs SATA HDDs that I connect to a purchased raid controller. While I was trying to go through the partitioning during the install I keep getting an error stating something about the kernel cant see the raid1 that I just configured and was trying to "finish" and it wont unless I reboot. So I do and then I get that the disks are configured for raid but there is no actual raid.

I have tried almost everything and would be pulling my hair out if it werent so short, does anybody have any suggestions for me, or better yet a bit of a step-by-step?

Thanks

HappyTux · 07-21-2007, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manny534

Hello everyone,

I wanted to install Debian on a Mac G4 I had sitting in the garage it has 2-250 GBs SATA HDDs that I connect to a purchased raid controller. While I was trying to go through the partitioning during the install I keep getting an error stating something about the kernel cant see the raid1 that I just configured and was trying to "finish" and it wont unless I reboot. So I do and then I get that the disks are configured for raid but there is no actual raid.

I have tried almost everything and would be pulling my hair out if it werent so short, does anybody have any suggestions for me, or better yet a bit of a step-by-step?

Thanks

You might want to go to http://lists.debian.org get the address for the PPC user list then post there to see if anyone can help if you do not subscribe to the list make sure to ask for them to CC you.

Daws · 07-21-2007, 06:23 PM

Posted on debian-devel-announce a couple of days ago:

Quote:

The Debian Installer team is happy to announce that daily built images
of Debian Installer (for Lenny) now include experimental support for
installing Debian on systems configured with Serial ATA RAID [1], as
supported in Linux by using the dmraid utility.

The support is experimental because
- it has not yet had very much testing;
- only the GRUB bootloader installer supports it, which effectively limits
support to i386 and amd64;
- dmraid devices are currently not really supported by either libparted
(partitioning) or any bootloaders; the current support in the installer
works around this, but this results in some limitations in usability.

Users are invited to test this new feature of the installer.
Installation instructions and an overview of limitations can be found on
the Debian Installer Wiki [2]. Please read that page carefully.
Installer and CD images are available from [3]; you will need one of
the "daily built" images.
Please report any issues by filing an installation report [4].

The support for Serial ATA RAID is scheduled to be included in the first
Beta release of the installer for Lenny.

On behalf of the Debian Installer team,
Frans Pop

[1] To confuse the general public, this is also referred to as ATA RAID,
BIOS RAID, fake RAID and software RAID, as well as a number of vendor
specific terms such as "Intel Matrix Storage".
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid
[3] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
[4] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/...tml#submit-bug

May or may not be helpful ...