cannot install lenny amd64 on 2950

[Alex Mestiashvili]

christian.peper at kpn.com wrote:
> Ah yes, I've had that on the PE2950, where the Dell virtual media
> devices add additional boot devices and mess up device enumeration.
>
> We've fixed that by installing using the option 'nousbstorage' on Red
> Hat, but I'm not sure if Debian will know about that option.
>
> Otherwise, simply poke around in the grub loader
> Grub>root hd(0,0)
> Or 
> Grub>root hd(1,0)
>
> If it finds root environment, your set. Edit fstab using the device
> you've just found and reboot. This should be fairly straight forward
> from a stnd Linux rescue mode.
>
> Chris.
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
>> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Teodor MICU
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:45 PM
>> To: ronreg at mtholyoke.edu
>> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
>> Subject: Re: cannot install lenny amd64 on 2950
>>
>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:13:28 -0500
>> ronreg at mtholyoke.edu wrote:
>>     
>>> Lenny i386 isn't working either.  Install appears to 
>>>       
>> complete OK, but 
>>     
>>> the bootloader never starts on reboot.  Again, running grub 
>>>       
>> manually 
>>     
>>> from Knoppix is no help - grub can't find the disk.
>>>       
>> You should check the release notes:
>>   http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer/
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> ----
>> Disk devices may change on reboot
>>     On systems with multiple disk controllers, the 
>> kernel/udev may assign a different device node on reboot of 
>> the system than was used during installation due to 
>> difference in load order of drivers. This can lead to failure 
>> to boot the system. In most cases this can be corrected by 
>> changing the bootloader configuration and /etc/fstab, 
>> possibly using the rescue mode of the installer. Note however 
>> that this problem may occur again on subsequent boots. 
>>
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I had such problems with PE1950 , finally I changed device names to 
their UUIDs and that worked just fine .
/boot/grub/menu.lst
<skip>
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.27.13-grsec
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.13-grsec 
root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a90aaf9b-9b29-49f8-94ae-aebd7ca33378 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.13-grsec
savedefault

#cat /etc/fstab
UUID=a90aaf9b-9b29-49f8-94ae-aebd7ca33378    /                 ext3    
rw,errors=remount-ro  0    1
...


Alex