Re: sarge netinst bug with cpqarray
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:29:20PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:17:38PM +0200, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:07:24AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > "Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)
> > > > Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed.
> > > > This is a fatal error"
> > > >
> > > > and in the console 3:
> > > >
> > > > "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
> > > > /dev/ida/c0d0p2 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
> > > >
> > > > that c0d0p2 looks weird.. there's no such device in /dev/ida/.
> > >
> > > grub-install is running in the /target chroot, and you should indeed
> > > have a /target/dev/ida/c0d0p2; that's the standard name for this device.
> >
> > When grub install fails the first time, do a
> > echo "(hd0) /dev/ida/c0d0" >> /target/boot/grub/device.map
> >
> > Then retry the grub install, and see if it solves your problem.
> >
>
> Yep, that helped. After echoing that to device.map, I chrooted myself to
> /target, and ran grub-install hd0. After this grub loads fine when I boot up
> the system.
>
> > > > I also tried booting with a grub floppy, and then manually booting using the
> > > > installed kernel from the second partition of the disk.. kernel panics
> > > > because it cannot mount root (because the cpqarray driver is not loaded..).
> > > I'd suggest you file a bug on initrd-tools about this. It should
> > > presumably include such drivers in the initrd.
> >
>
> Hmm.. any ideas how to manually add the cpqarray driver to initrd? I still
> cannot boot up the system, because the driver is not loaded during boot and
> because of that the root-fs cannot be mounted..
Add the a line to /etc/mkinitrd/modules conatining
cpqarray
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Finn-Arne Johansen
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