The Gentoo 2006.1 live CD text and graphical installers both fail when attempting to install the bootloader, using grub, onto a cciss HP array controller. This bug was encountered when attempting to install the bootloader to /dev/cciss/c0d0. I was able to work around this by creating a device.map file and calling it when I ran grub manually. (grub --device-map /boot/grub/device.map) I will be supplying the logfiles from the installer within a couple of days, once I have the time to repeat the install process. Note that this also appears to be a problem when using Lilo, but I only attempted that once, and that was just after 2006.1 was released.
Can you attach your custom device.map?
(In reply to comment #1) > Can you attach your custom device.map? > Yes, will do.
Created attachment 97656 [details] Install profile from example installation.
Created attachment 97657 [details] Installer.log.failed from example installation.
Created attachment 97661 [details] device.map from working installation. This device.map file was called during a manual grub installation once the installation from live CD failed. Grub installation was done from chroot on partially complete installation using same linux instance that was running from initial liveCD boot. Syntax used: grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map I have also attached the config.gz from my running kernel, which was complied in the chroot'ed environment also, before reboot to operational install.
Created attachment 97662 [details] config.gz from working kernel configuration. This kernel was manually configured and installed.
Unfortunately, I will no longer have access to this hardware for further testing. Sorry for that, my resources are limited. :-)
*** Bug 150833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Without more info or testing I can't really help here. You may be better off using quickstart where you manually define all these things beforehand.
*** Bug 221787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
