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bug #8900: grub-install cannot handle Compaq/HP SmartArrays and SystemConfigurator

Submitted by:  Mark Seger <seger>
Submitted on:  Wed 12 May 2004 11:43:41 AM UTC  
 
Category: Disk & PartitionSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: Mark Seger
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 0.93
Release: NoneReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 12:51:15 PM UTC, comment #1:

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Please can you check if this bug still applies there, and if it does, reopen it?

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Project Administrator
Wed 12 May 2004 11:43:41 AM UTC, original submission:

I'm told that the disk naming convention of ...discX/partY is common to multiple linux environments and that's why SystemConfigurator uses it even though RedHat (where I'm running) doesn't. When using SmartArray controllers, disks therefore get named something like /dev/cciss/disc0/part1 and the parsing of this fails in the convert() function, where the variable tmp_part is being determined. It's only looking for strings start contain disk/partX and this fails because there is no disk number. I've implemented a patch that remaps devices from that format back to /dev/cciss/c0d0 which in fact is what's stored in device.map. I've entered a previous bug in which I cannot allow grub to generate its own device map because it comes up without disks in it.

So, the real answer is to probably address both problems together.

Since not everyone has access to machines with these controllers I'll be more than happy to provice any assistence/testing as needed.

Mark Seger <seger>

 

Attached Files
file #1301:  grub-install added by seger (13KiB - application/octet-stream - a patched version of grub-install (with some extra echo statements for debugging))

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Sat 15 Dec 2007 12:51:15 PM UTCrobertmhOpen/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 12 May 2004 11:43:41 AM UTCsegerAttached File-=>Added grub-install, #1293

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