Re: GRUB can't be installed during NET-INSTALL
I had an apparently similar / related problem:
I upgraded a woody system with hardware raid:
0000:02:0b.1 RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation AcceleRAID
352/170/160 support Device (rev 02)
the upgrade itself went fine, but when I tried to reboot into the new
kernel, I found that lilo still showed the old boot menu, providing just
the old kernels. I installed grub.
After this the system became unbootable: apparently grub had messed up
the boot record and put something like
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hdaX ro
in the menue.lst
The system had to be installed from scratch.
I finally succeded by installing Sarge in expert26-mode and installed
grub on floppy disk.
Afterwards, taking care of grub's configuration files, I managed to
install it on the Raid array.
My grub.lst contains the crucial lines:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/rd/c0d0p4 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
savedefault
boot
I hope this helps, and hope that someone might look after what goes
wrong with grub. It cost me a whole night, just to get our server
running again. I consider this a serious bug.
Regards,
Johannes
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