[wplug] Server install

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:46:08PM -0500, Arnaud Loos wrote:
> I find myself installing Debian on a server for the first time and I'm
> having a problem. The server is a Dell 1650 with a perc 3/Di controller.
> Through the Adaptec config util I've setup the three disks (36 GB) as a
> RAID5 set. I boot off the Debian sarge netinstall cd and get through the
> disk partitioning (correctly recognized a 72 GB volume) and base install but
> I'm having a problem with the grub install. I first tried to install Grub to
> the MBR but that failed. I then tried installing to /dev/hda1, /dev/sda1,
> /dev fd0 (windows formatted, FAT16), but all these fail. I thought at least
> the floppy would work. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I don't have any first-hand experience with this, but it looks like
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259297
has a possible workaround.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u