Hi-What is your problem with mkfs? When I use the 'automatically partition' feature, all the filesystems seem to get created fine. I don't know anything about LVM, but I will take your word for it that it doesn't work. In my understanding, GRUB won't work until the kernel gets installed and works. The kernel isn't getting installed because, I think, mkinitrd can't create the initrd.gz image because it can't figure out the weird /dev/... scheme. I have problems with DHCP also, though I think it is unrelated to CCISS (a scsi device) and probably more related to the broadcom ethernet card. I have found that if you continue to re-try dhcp, it will eventually work. Why it takes so long is unknown to me.
Please let me know if you experience further success! good luck, Erik Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
Thank you for this information, but I think this is only a small subset of the solution about system equipped with the CCISS controller. [... about HP ProLiant DL380 ...] Il mer, 2004-02-18 alle 15:31, Erik Dykema ha scritto:You may find that this is also related to these bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232415 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232413[...] I spent two days testing with this machine and I think that d-i is absolutely *not* ready for such a machine: 1. the installer cannot mkfs the partitions 2. the LVM is still not working 3. grub doesn't work on this device 4. the DHCP isn't working correctly Bye, Giuseppe