FS#19190 - Installation problems on HP Proliant DL380 G4

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Roman Widmann (archme) - Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 09:32 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 26 November 2012, 04:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Low
Reported Version 2009.08
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hello,

I am trying to install "archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-x86_64.iso" on HP Proliant DL380 G4.
This hardware uses a HP Smart Array raid controller:
04:03.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 64xx
Generally this controller is supported, detected by kernel.
Following device is created by udev: /dev/cciss/c0d0

I creted the following partitioning scheme:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 24 192748+ 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 25 510 3903795 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 511 2942 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4 2943 35419 260871502+ 5 Extended
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 2943 9021 48829536 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 9022 35419 212041903+ 83 Linux

But, i am facing the following problems during installation:
1. after partitioning the hd, when choosing the fs-types and mount-points i get also listed /dev/cciss/c0d0p4.
This is the "Extended" partition and i think should not be choosable at this stage (formating).
2. When it comes to "Install Bootloader", i choose /dev/cciss/c0d0.
Then i am directed to editing grub/menu.lst

title Arch Linux
root
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

See that there is nothing after "root", which should be (hd0,0) i suppose
But anyway bootloader installation fails after saving menu.lst (sorry, but i dont have the exact dialog error msg)

Hope this report is clear, detailed enough to be usefull.
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Monday, 26 November 2012, 04:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Saturday, 24 April 2010, 10:42 GMT
1) patch welcome
2) this patch should at least warn you about the missing $grubdev and ask you to check it. http://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/commit/5453dd25e052670e4df6aa90beceaadd849ee6d2, can you try it? ie check if $grubdev == ''
anything beyond that: patch welcome
Comment by Roman Widmann (archme) - Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 17:15 GMT
Hi Dieter,

Not sure but, i found the following bug-report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508189

maybe the whole thing is not related to aif code but this bug in grub-install ?
Comment by Bradford Jorgensen (AnM8) - Thursday, 03 June 2010, 05:16 GMT
Roman,

I have the exact same HP Proliant DL380 G4 server and am experiencing similar problems. Did you ever get Arch Linux loaded??? My error reads "Warning: Could not create all needed Filesystems. Either the underlying block devices didn’t become available in 10 iterations or process files system failed."

I am a Linux novice... HELP!!!

Bradford
Comment by Bradford Jorgensen (AnM8) - Thursday, 03 June 2010, 13:19 GMT
Roman,

I have the exact same HP Proliant DL380 G4 server and am experiencing similar problems. Did you ever get Arch Linux loaded??? My error reads "Warning: Could not create all needed Filesystems. Either the underlying block devices didn’t become available in 10 iterations or process files system failed."

I am a Linux novice... HELP!!!

Bradford
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 25 December 2011, 14:58 GMT
*) listing extended partitions. -> grub / find_usable_blockdevices() code is being refactored. see  FS#25726 
*) missing device in grub config (device map) -> this should be fixed now.  FS#26717 

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