Bug#306977: sarge rc3 on ProLiant ML370 G3
reassign 306977 grub-installer
retitle 306977 Assumes wrong disk order for booting
thanks
On Friday 29 April 2005 20:44, Wojciech Palacz wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Initial boot: not really an error, rather an annoyance. I wanted to
> install sarge via the remote console (iLO).
[...]
> Everything was going OK until ISOLINUX loaded and displayed initial
> banner (isolinux.txt + splash.rle), at which moment the remote console
> client stopped transmiting screen contents.
This is a known issue which we will try to document in the installation
manual. It is unlikely that the splash screen will be changed though.
> GRUB: incorrect disk order. Assumed that (hd0) == /dev/hdb, (hd1) ==
> /dev/cciss/c0d0, (hd2) == /dev/cciss/c0d1, etc. Incorrect menu.lst was
> generated, and grub installed itself on the wrong disk.
This is a very annoying problem for which we don't really have a solution
yet. We will probably need to add some kind of disk/partition selection
dialog to deal with this as detecting from which controller/disk a system
boots looks not really possible.
Reassigning this report to grub-installer for this issue.
> After reboot: serverworks.o IDE module not loaded. /etc/modules
> contained only "ide-cd ide-detect ide-disk psmouse", and system was
> using some generic driver to talk to hda and hdb -- no DMA transfers,
> slooow. I have added "serverworks" at the front of /etc/modules, and
> now I can use "hdparm -X69 -d /dev/hdb" to get some decent performance.
Ideally that module should be included in your initrd, not loaded
from /ect/modules. You can create an initrd containing the module by
including it in /etc/mkinitrd/modules.
You could also try debugging mkinitrd yourself to see why it fails to
include that module and file a bugreport against initrd-tools.
> There is no psmouse.o kernel module; its presence in /etc/modules
> causes harmless error messages during boot.
Right, that module is compiled into the kernel for 2.4 kernels.
Cheers,
FJP
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