Grub fail to boot(or install) when 2nd cciss controller used as a boot controller. System: DL380 G2 - I experienced the same problem on ML530. Controller: SA5i(Embedded), SA532(Boot controller) Steps to reproduce: 1. Configure SA532 as a boot controller 2. Begin installation 3. Select grub as a bootloader and choose to install to /dev/cciss/c1d0p1 4. Finish install - right after a postinstall, text console message shows following message. "/boot/grub/device.map:3:error:Bad device number" 5. Make rescue floppy and reboot - it will fail to boot 6. Insert 1st CD again and try to reboot from it 7. Switch to console terminal at first GUI screen 8. Mount /dev/cciss/c1d0p2( / ) and /dev/cciss/c1d0p1(/boot). 9. chroot to /dev/cciss/c1d0p2 10. cd /boot/grub 11. "/sbin/grub-install /dev/cciss/c1d0p1" will generate following message. - " /dev/cciss/c1d0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive" 12. "more device.map" in /boot/grub - (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd2) /dev/cciss/c1d0 13. Reboot the system again, and try to boot from rescue floppy. 14. Rescue boot also failed and generating; > mount : error 19 mounting ext3 > pivot root : pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed : 2 > Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing int=option to kernel.
This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.
Just out of curiosity, does LILO actually work in this configuration without any tweaks to /etc/lilo.conf? Also, what drives actually exist in the system?
"LILO works perfectly without any problem. On SA532 controller, I have one RAID 5 logical volume configured which consist of 3 Compaq 18G ultra 3 scsi drives in the storage box."
And there are no other hard drives in the system other than the ones in the RAID controller? What does `/usr/sbin/kudzu -p -c HD` show?
This defect is *now* considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax.
Per Compaq: And there are no other hard drives in the system other than the ones in the RAID controller? Answer: I have 2 Compaq RAID controllers in the system with following config: SA5i - Embedded controller. 2 logical volumes configured /dev/cciss/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d1 SA532 - BOOT CONTROLLER - 1 logical volume configured /dev/cciss/c1d0 /dev/cciss/c1d0p1 - /boot /dev/cciss/c1d0p2 - / /dev/cciss/c1d0p3 - swap What does `/usr/sbin/kudzu -p -c HD` show? There's nothing returned from executing the command.
I really don't know that there's a way to do this unless there's something better exported to user space about BIOS ordering of drives. Other possibilities are having the driver order the drives correctly. If lilo works with the stock configuration file generated with anaconda, could you give the output of /sbin/lilo -v -v -v ?
Didn't make it for Enigma. For the next release, I'm looking at redoing the boot loader screen with a way to give advanced information such as this.
*** Bug 53585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
You'll be able to manually change the detected drive order for Hampton