Description of problem: installed rhel as4 beta2 em64t on a new hp dl360g4. installs fine. (last message of install is that it is writing mbr...) reboot. os fails to load. (message on screen stating system is trying to boot from cdrom, hd, floppy... system hangs, does nothing.) resolution: boot from install disk, choose linux rescue option... chroot /mnt/sysinstall (as directed) now do this: /sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf --no-floppy grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit reboot. system boots normally now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhel as4 beta2 em64t How reproducible: always. every single install ever tried on this hardware, multiple boxes tried. Steps to Reproduce: 1. install the os as directed. 2. reboot. 3. will not boot to the newly installed os until new mbr is written to the drive using the process used above. Actual results: system will not boot ever after a straight out of the box fresh install. Expected results: os will boot after install. Additional info: upon request.
Does this have some sort of cciss controller?
it contains a new hp "smart array 6i" raid 0+1 array controller onboard. older hp dl360g3 were built with a "smart array 5i" raid controller on the motherboard. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl360/index.html we are using the scsi hd based machines. the install program sees the drives, partitions and formats them, and installs the os on them. appears to just fail to write the mbr. a japanese hp site which has controller info: http://translate.google.com/translate? hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainst ream/whatsnew/index_04.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D6i%2Bdl360g4%2Bredhat% 26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en- US:official
That's a cciss based controller. I've fixed grub to properly write the MBR to these since beta2.