Package: grub Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17 Severity: normal
Apparently grub does not work on our Dual-Xeon Servers from Supermicro These are equipped with I20-RAID-Controllers from Adaptec: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/scsi/dpt_i2o/0 Adaptec I2O RAID Driver Version: 2.4 Build 5go Vendor: Adaptec Model: 2005S FW:380E It 'hangs' with: ------------------------------------- Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686-smp ' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686-smp root=/dev/sda1 ro console=ttyS0,57600 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x12b71c] initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686-smp [Linux-initrd @ 0x37b4b000, 0x4a4000 bytes] savedefault boot ------------------------------------- IT makes no difference if the boot-disk is part of a hardware-RAID-set or is used as a plain disk from linux. Lilo works, but we have to use the 'compact' option. Without that lilo needs about 15 min to load kernel and initrd. But in the end it manages to boot. Grub seems to be stuck forever (have not waited longer than two hours ;-) So there seems to be a general problem with booting on this kind of controller, but at least with lilo there is a reasonable workaround. Would be nice to have that for grub also. As I understand grub has superior features over lilo so it would be nice to switch to grub on all our boxes. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages grub depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
