s5000psl installation issues

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:23 -0400, Tommy Fullington wrote:
> I am currently trying to install redhat enterprise 4.3 on a intel
> s5000psl board using raid five, I have installed Suse 10.2 enterprise
> on this board (using the megasar raid drivers.) and the only problem I
> had was needing to change some setting in fstab, grub loaded and the
> system ran just fine.

I'm assuming that grub loaded fine without the change to fstab, since
grub doesn't use fstab.  fstab is only used after the Linux kernel
starts.

>  After I install rhel 4.3 however grub doesn't even load, so it leads
> me to believe that this is a problem with the version of grub not a
> kernel problem/install problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> GREATLY. I've been working on this at work for a month now.

Grub doesn't even sign on?  That's rather strange.  I'd at least expect
some sort of display.  What specifically do you see when you try it?

You could also try booting the first CD in rescue mode.  Let the system
mount the existing system, then (assuming your RAID 5 shows up
as /dev/sda):

	# chroot /mnt/sysimage
	# grub-install /dev/sda
	# exit
	# exit

Pop out the CD and try to reboot.

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