Package: installation-reports Boot method: DVD from external DVD reader with USB connection Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_rc1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-sq-di-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 17 January 2011
Machine: DELL OptiPlex 780 SF Processor: Intel E7500 Memory: 2Gb Partitions: Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Overall install: [E] Comments/Problems: this machine have two sata disks connected to a intel software raid controller. The two disks have been connfigured as one logical disk in mirror using the controller BIOS. The linux install has been started with "dmraid=true" option and the logical disk has been correctly detected and configured. When the bootloaded has to be installed, grub-pc was selected and proposed to install itself on mbr since no other OSes were detected. I pressed OK and the grub installation failed with a message like 'cannot setup grub on /dev/sda'. This is correct since /dev/sda should not be used because it is part of the /dev/mapper/isw_XXXXXXX_ARRAY. Reading the documentation I found that grub2 does not support this kind of raid controller, nor lilo does. So, it seems Debian cannot be installed at all on such system. Bye, Giuseppe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
