Bug#360925: INSTALL REPORT

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:34:23AM -0400, Steve Pomeroy wrote:
> 0000:07:03.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart
> Array 5300 Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:07:07.0 PCI Hot-plug controller: Compaq Computer Corporation PCI
> Hotplug Controller (rev 12)
> 
> There was an error installing grub to the boot sector of the
> SCSI RAID (/dev/cciss/c0d0). I tried LILO instead, and that worked
> on the first try.

I am pretty sure grub does NOT currently support the weird devices the
compaq raid driver is using.  I never understood why that controller has
to have such a non standard driver anyhow.  Lilo does work with that one
as you found out.

Len Sorensen