[ydl-gen] YDL 5 installation on Xserve

[Atro Tossavainen]

Aaron,

> I have successfully completed a RAID1 / install, there are 2 RAID 
> options when configuring it in the GUI and I used the top one, would you 
> be able to provide more details about your situation so I may be able to 
> better recreate it?

I can't see the two options you mean.  I'll need you to provide more
details as I'm not seeing anything like that.  I'll detail the steps
I've taken.

I'm booting from the 5.0.2 CD 1/6 dated June 27, 2007.

I'm choosing "install" at yaboot, which takes me to the GUI installer.

It asks me for the language, I pick English.

It asks me for the keyboard layout, I pick UK.

It asks for the installation media, I pick NFS image.

It asks for the network device, I pick the Tigon3.

It asks for the IP address information, I hand-configure it with
correct specs for our network.

It asks for the NFS server name, I enter the server name and the
directory where I have copied the contents of all the YDL 5.0.2 CDs.

Anaconda starts and goes into the GUI.

I OK the welcome screen.

It searches the disks for YDL installations and finds nothing, of course.

It then asks for the partitioning method, suggesting "Remove linux
partitions and create default layout", with "Review and modify
partitioning layout" unchecked by default.

I pick "Remove all partitions and create default layout" and leave
"Review and modify" unchecked.

It then asks for the root password.

(As far as I can see, I didn't get a chance to RAID right away if I do
this.  If I check "Review and modify", I can set up RAID by hand, but
it's not a "click this button and it's done" type of process as you
seem to imply, rather it requires several manual steps.)

It retrieves the installation information and checks (twice) for
dependencies.  If I click on Next to start the installation, everything
seems to be fine except for the fact that I'm not getting what I want.
Root takes up the entire first disk and Apple_Bootstrap, /boot and swap
are on the second disk.

If I check "Review and modify", I get to start from another interesting
default partition table.  Apple_Bootstrap, /boot and root on the first
hard drive, swap on the second hard drive.  Deleting swap moves root
to the second hard drive.  Deleting root and boot I now have a partition
table where Apple_Bootstrap is on the first hard drive, nothing else,
and the second drive is completely empty.  I then click on RAID, and
the only option presented is to create a software RAID partition (fair
enough, it's hard to build a metadevice without partitions to build it
on).  I proceed to create a 100 MB swRAID partition on both drives to
use as /boot.  The next step is to create the metadevice.  It gives me
the options of RAID0, RAID1 and RAID1 (yes, the latter twice).  I make
/dev/md0 a RAID1 of /dev/hde3 and /dev/hdg2, with ext3, to be mounted
at /boot.  I repeat the steps for a 16 GB partition to be used as root
(hde4 and hdg3), and for a 2 GB partition to be used as swap (hde4 and
hdg3 again - it has moved root into hde5 and hdg4 in the meantime).

The scheme is now deficient in the sense that the second hard drive is
missing an Apple_Bootstrap partition.  If the first hard drive goes,
all data is safe but I will be unable to boot.

Again, root password and "Retrieving installation information" followed
by dependency checks.  Begin installation -> seems to work.

The only difference I can see to what I was doing before is that I was
forcing an Apple_Bootstrap partition to exist on both disks and creating
the partitions manually in pdisk because the GUI partition-o-matic
messes up the partition order if I try to do that.  When I did that,
clicking OK at the "Begin installation" stage caused the machine to
panic.

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