Problem Capturing right Host Primary Disk with INTEL VROC RAID1

[rodluz]

@george1421 Let me know how that goes. I remember that I had to patch something on buildroot for partclone and ncurses. A new patch may be needed if they made changes for 2024.05.1.
I can give it a try as well.

Are you trying to build the newest version of partclone?

[george1421]

@rodluz I got everything to compile, but it was a pita.

I did compile the 0.3.32 version of partclone and 4.3 of mdadm on buildroot 2024.05.1. The new compiler complains when package developer references files outside of the buildroot tree. Partclone referenced /lib/include/ncursesw (the multibyte version of ncurses). Buildroot did not build the needed files in the target directory. So to keep compiling I copied from by linux mint host system the files it was looking for into the output target file path then I manually updated the references in the partclone package to point to the output target. Not a solution at all but got past the error. Also partimage did the same thing but references and include slang directory. That directory did exists in the output target directory, so I just updated the package refereces to that location and it compiled. In the end the updated mdadm file did not solve the vroc issue. I’m going to boot next with a linux live distro and see if it can see the vroc drive, if yes then I want to see what kernel drivers are there vs fos.

[rdfeij]

@george1421
In addition to this topic
I have it working with FOG version 1.5.10.41 (dev version)
Kernel 6.6.34
Init 2024.02.3

stable (also with latest kernel/init) is not working.

[rdfeij]

@george1421
to be adding some to this topic since our system was broken again with the same problems.

I updated recently to newer fog version (1.5.10.1751 and today to 1.5.10.1754) and that seems to break it again.
I noticed that updating also starts using latest Initrd. (2025.02.4)

Things are broken with latest Initrd. I set it back to 2024.02.9 AMD/Intel 64 bit and it is working again.
Then i updated Initrd to 202502.0 AMD/Intel 64 bit and it is still working.

Strange thing is that in webinterface the latest version is shown multiple times.
When I open and download the upper one during pxe boot I see version 20251221 loaded. That one is not working.

Is there anywhere to analyse what the differences are?

I also want to add that we were focussing on nvme. But VROC doesn’t seem to work with nvme in raid.
There are sata ssd/nvme in those slots.