Re: sarge netinst bug with cpqarray

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

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.
 
> > 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.
> 
> Looks very much like some of the problems we've seen with the cciss-driver
> 
> Please report this to your HP/Compaq sales representativ, so they
> might put some more people on it. I'll bcc my contact here in Norway as
> well, hoping he might feed the guys in Houston with more information. 
> 
> Is this a new Machine ? 
>

No.. this box is a couple of years old. Proliant DL360.
 
> > > 
> > > 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..

Thanks!

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
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