[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:22:36PM -0500, Ryan Hobbs wrote:
>> HP Proliant DL385 with HP Smart Array 6i controller.
>> Two Dual-core Opterons with 6 GB of RAM.
>> Trying to install the netinstall of the amd64 port.
>> However, both grub and LILO fail to install citing errors with installation
>> errors.
>>
>> I receive the following if I try to proceed, skipping the boot loader
>> install.
>>
>> "You will need to boot normally with the /boot/vmlinuz kernal on partition
>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 and root = /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 passed as a kernal argument"
>>
>> I have tried to install a /boot partition as well as a sing root partition.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> I suspect it may be an issue of neither lilo nor grub having a clue what
> bios device /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 would map to. They both know about
> /dev/hd* and /dev/sd*. Weird drivers like the cciss one that do their
> own things just cause trouble.
>
> I imagine grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0 might work, although you would
> have to make sure the menu.lst is populated correctly.
The devices.map has to be setup correctly. Probing for that probably
failed and then grub-install fails.
> You could also make a grub floppy, boot it, then use setup (hd0) to try
> and transfer the install from the floppy to the HD. Maybe doing root
> (hd0,0) and then setup (hd0) is best so it knows which partition to look
> for /boot/grub/menu.lst on.
>
> Making a grub floppy is as simple as: cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0 where
> stage1 and stage2 are in the grub dir somewhere (and often in /boot/grub
> too).
>
> Hopefully once you manage to get grub onto the disks boot sector, it
> will just work.
>
> Len Sorensen
MfG
Goswin
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