@Brandon, I was able to successfully boot into 12.04. The trick, I think, is that you need two sets of driver disks in order to pull this off.
I tested this on a PowerEdge C8000 series server, which allowed me to boot trouble-free into an EFI shell to load the Fusion-io.efi module. The reason is because there are two kernels involved on this daily image of 12.04. The installer kernel is running 3.8.0-29 while the final kernel that gets installed is 3.8.0-35. Since the kernel modules are built for a specific kernel, I'm guessing what happened to you was that you had 3.8.0-29 drivers but didn't have any for the 3.8.0-35 kernel, thus, when the OS tried to boot it fell down on you. Here's what I did: 1) Because of this situation, I had to create kernel modules for both 3.8.0-29 and 3.8.0-35, create packages, and put the respective packages on my driver disk USB stick. 2) Once those were in place, I booted up with the kernel command line "anna/choose_modules=driver-injection-disk-detect" 3) I verified both sets of kernel modules were installed. The installer picked up the fioa device and I could install without trouble..grub gave me no problems. 4) Once that was done, I rebooted into an EFI shell, loaded the Fusion- IO module, then booted from grubx64.efi on the FIO device. 5) From the grub prompt I saw an "efidisk write error". This can be safely ignored and after a few seconds the Operating Sytem booted up just fine from the fioa disk partitions. So, 12.04.4's daily builds are indeed good to go from the testing I was able to do. I'll send along the packages I used along with the steps I used to boot this machine up successfully. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1237519 Title: Grub2 fails to install to non-standard device path To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1237519/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
