I think grub-pc is also affected by similar device name length issues. I have a Sun Fire X4500 where the firmware is so strange only two of the 48 disk drives are exposed to the BIOS as boot disks. Ubuntu sees them as /dev/sdy and /dev/sdag
I was able to shoe-horn an installation of 10.04.3 on by using the server installation CD option "continue without without bootloader" (or something to that effect) then booting from the CD in recovery mode and from a shell prompt running "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" which presented me with only /dev/sda through /dev/sdz as installation targets for grub2. The system has md RAID1 /dev/sdy1 and /dev/sdag1 but the bootstrap is only on /dev/sdy at this point and not on /dev/sdag. Eventually I hope to get around to find the code that limits grub-pc to only /dev/sd[a-z] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776633 Title: grub-installer fails if root is on 27th disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/776633/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
