When installing FC3 on an HP Proliant DL380 w/ HP SmartArray 5i controller grub fails to install successfully (leaving the system unable to boot). In essence, when Anaconda is nearly finished and gets to the grub install, grub fails and Anaconda does not report it (instead it gives you the "Reboot" screen saying installation is complete). However, by switching the proper console (5, as I recall) you can see the actual error: http://hackers.progeny.com/~sam/ZZ-Images/hp_bug.png As you can see, grub identifies the filesystem type, but cannot actually read any files from it (there it is failing to read stage1, but I have verified it can't read any files on the system). Now, I haven't filed this as a bug in Bugzilla yet because this seems to be a problem well beyond just FC3. I have verified that other distros exhibit the same behavior. Also, I have isolated it down to some sort of kernel issue. In checking with some custom FC2-based distros, I've verified that the problem only occurs with kernel versions after 2.6.5. I have tried both stock and patched Fedora kernels. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Note that if you install FC2 on the machine and then upgrade, everything works except for future Grub installs ;-) To see the bug the installer must be running on a kernel newer than 2.6.5. Since this is not really a FC3 bug, does it even have a place in RH's bugzilla? FWIW, I would wager that RHEL would have the same problem, even though I have not verified it myself. BTW, since this is grub-legacy, I'm yet to find anyone in the grub community who's willing to diagnose it ;-) Here are the outputs of dmesg/lspci from the machine after a successful FC2 install: http://hackers.progeny.com/~sam/ZZ-Docs/dmesg.out http://hackers.progeny.com/~sam/ZZ-Docs/lspci.out -- ''''''''''''''''''''''''' .O. Sam Hart, sam@xxxxxxxxxxx ..O Progeny Linux Systems, Inc OOO <http://www.progeny.com/>
