Smart Array 5304 and GRUB

[quaalude-timmy]

Going through the amd64 install doc verbatim making the necessary adjustments for my configuration:

Intel SE7525GP2
2 Xeon 2.8 w/EM64T
Smart Array 5304
4GB Memory
6 U320 146GB drives (Raid 5 w/spare). It is one BIG array.

Get to Grub part of the install and run grub-install and got error:

No corresponding BIOS drive.

Try the grup prompt and get same message

Edit the device.map file to include (hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0 and run grub-install again. This time I get a few floppy drive (which my system has) messages, scsi disk activity, and then a message that says No errors reported.

Exit the chroot env, umount the filesystems and reboot the machine and it comes to a blinking prompt. Grrr...

Anyone got any more ideas as to how I can get my machine to boot?

I have been at this for 3 days and have started over twice.

[dougco]

Some input from my experience; I am using gentoo 2005.1 and I have the compaq DL360 w/ the Ultra3 SCSI array thingy.

I booted up w/ "doscsi" as a boot flag.

I had to do a "modprobe cciss"

I did "fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d0" and blew away the existing partitions and then used c0d0p1, c0d0p2, and c0d0p3 as the standard 3 partitions.

I did a manual kernel build, the smart array options are right there and already selected in my case.

Grub was tricky; I had to edit the /boot/grub/device.map file:

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(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/cciss/c0d0

and then my grub.conf looks like:

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# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc.
default 0
# How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted.
timeout 30
# Nice, fat splash-image to spice things up :)
# Comment out if you don't have a graphics card installed
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r10
# Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/gentoo-kernel doscsi root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3

Hope that helps someone out there!