Re: sarge netinst bug with cpqarray

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:37:01PM +0200, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:18:53PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Yes. d-i is using devfs, the chroot /target is using normal device
> names. When instalaltion is done, the installed system is also using
> devfs
> 

OK. That explains. Thanks.

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
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