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#1 2009-03-18 15:40:32

Benedict_White
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From: Sussex, UK
Registered: 2004-05-27
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Compaq/HP CCISS controller and Grub/Lilo

I have this big problem.

I have just installed Arch 64 bit on a brand new HP DL380. No problem there.

When I got to installing the boot loader, unsurprisingly I had a problem installing Grub, so used LILO instead.

This was fine until I did an update when Lilo changed its mind about what the root device was (/dev/cciss/c0d0p3) and decided it must be /dev/cciss!c0d0p3.

Needless to say there is no such partition.

After a bit of a struggle I did get Grub to replace lilo and it boots in to grub fine, the only problem is that that is as far as it gets. It does not appear to see or load the menu at /boot/grub/menu.lst, so I have to type in the options followed by boot and it boots. This is obviously not good.

Has any one got any ideas?

For example can they tell what I may be missing in the grub setup?

Kind regards

Benedict White


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Benedict White

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#2 2009-03-18 16:46:48

Benedict_White
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From: Sussex, UK
Registered: 2004-05-27
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Re: Compaq/HP CCISS controller and Grub/Lilo

I just reinstalled the machine via FTP, and what I found was that when I tried to install grub, a very quick error popped up saying that there was a divide by zero error and mentioning the CCISS controller. Anyone any ideas where I can look at the script responsible?


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