I just installed a debian based distro on my Dell poweredge 2900. It comes with a perc 5/i raid card which actually translates to a MegaRAID 8408E card, but dell likes to slap there name on it.
The install went okay, except for grub. I get the classic failed to install grub to hd(0,0) message and I am left with an un-bootable system.
The configuration is RAID 5, and the installer is labeling the partitions as /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 (root and swap respectively).
I booted in with knoppix to install grub, but knoppix doesn't recognize the individual disks so i cant install grub on the first hard drive.
Its been awhile since I have installed grub, so i tried a few things...
Here is my fstab from the boot disk
Code:
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/fd0 auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hda /media/hda auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
So I blunderingly tried..
Code:
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee
grub>
to no avail..
and I even tried,
Code:
root@Knoppix:/mnt# grub-install /dev/hda
/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
root@Knoppix:/mnt# grub-install /dev/sda
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
root@Knoppix:/mnt# grub-install /dev/sda1
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
to no avail..
Any idea how to get knoppix to write grub to the MBR of the first disk?
I gotta have this system running!
