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fincan

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 27

Fakeraid Installation Problem

I wanna install Archlinux on my raid0 (intel ich8) setup. But I could not install because of a bug; "ERROR: dos: partition address past end of RAID device."

well after activating dmraid with "modprobe dm_mod" and starting dmraid with "dmraid -ay" commands, this error message appears and my already fixed partition table can not be seen by the setup and it tries to create a new partition like "/dev/mapper/isw_sdjkfshkf_Volume0p1".

Well I tried to install with last core iso 64bit and I already use Ubuntu 10.04 on the raid0 setup.

is there any way to use dmraid correctly and complete the installation?

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Btw there are 3 partition on the raid0 setup. Volume01/ Volume05/ Volume06
01 is primary partition and 05/06 are logical ones unter extended. Dmraid sees Volume0p1 correctl as 25gb but the problem is the other 2 partition cant be seen by dmraid.

These outputs from my Ubuntu installation...

fincan@fincan-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_echjdfhfa_Volume0

Disk /dev/mapper/isw_echjdfhfa_Volume0: 500.1 GB, 500113342464 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 131072 bytes / 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c211f

                             Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mapper/isw_echjdfhfa_Volume0p1               1        3054    24523264   83  Linux
/dev/mapper/isw_echjdfhfa_Volume0p2            3054       60802   463867905    5  Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/mapper/isw_echjdfhfa_Volume0p5            3054       60195   458985216   83  Linux
/dev/mapper/isw_echjdfhfa_Volume0p6           60195       60802     4882432   82  Linux swap / Solaris

fincan@fincan-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c211f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        3054    24523264   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            3054       60802   463867905    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            4099        4099           0    0  Empty

fincan@fincan-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Last edited by fincan (2010-07-13 21:56:36)

fincan

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 27

Re: Fakeraid Installation Problem

Bump!