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I've switched kite to use the stock Debian kernel instead of my own hand-compiled linus kernel. I'm very glad to do that, because there are so many unfixed security holes in the linus kernels and keeping up with them has gotten to be quite a pain. Since I still don't have a decent serial console on kite, there were some breathless moments as I waited for it to come back up, but the gamble worked.

And it also let me use stuff that I never got around to enabling in my own kernel. So I was able to set up raid 5 and put lvm on top of it. This is how kite should have been set up from the beginning, but I didn't know that stuff at the time; I've only learned it through working on supporting it in d-i. Enought excitement though: I think I will wait to switch the root filesystem to raid until some time when I am actually local to the box.