ESX on PowerEdge 1850 - install fails the second time

[Krishnaprasad_K at Dell.com]

What's the ESX version are u using? Have you updated the firmware of
PERC 4 controller to the latest version? ( latest one will be available
at www.support.dell.com )

Thanks,
Krishnaprasad

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Shane Presley
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:40 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: ESX on PowerEdge 1850 - install fails the second time

We're installing ESX on a PE 1850 with a Perc4 controller. There are
two physical disks, mirrored, to make a single logical disk.

The first time I install ESX, everything goes fine.  But if I
re-install ESX, the install procedure reports that it sees two hard
drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb).  If I select a "new" install, it
deletes the partitions on both sda and sdb, and installs to sda. But
the next reboot hangs, with a grub error.

This seems to be reproducible.  The first install of ESX is fine.  But
if I try a re-install things go bad, and it seems to center around
seeing that second drive (sdb).

Any thoughts what might be causing this?
Thanks

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