Re: sarge netinst bug with cpqarray

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

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.
> 

Hmm.. during installation the disc is shown as /dev/ida/disc0/disc and the
partitions are shown as /dev/ida/disc0/partX.

Is this the correct behaviour?

> It sounds like grub-install is not adding the drive to the device.map,
> or is not seeing it at all. This is probably a bug in grub. If you can
> get the system to boot and reproduce the problem by running grub-install
> there then it's certianly a bug in grub and not in the installer per se.
>

I have not yet managed to get the system to boot. I'll try to run
grub-install if I manage to get the system booting.
 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > 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.
> 

OK.. maybe I'll do that.

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