Tips on how to (re)install grub on a HP ProLiant server
Mar 07
Recently, I needed to install Suse Linux Enterprise Server on a HP Proliant Server. The setup goes smoothly until I had to reboot the system, at which point, I got an error when I tried to boot from the hard disk – Error Loading Operating System. On booting with the installation disk in recovery mode, and trying to get grub to boot into the system on the hard disk, I kept on getting the error that /dev/had could not be found.
On looking at grub settings (grub.conf), I noticed that is was trying to boot from a had devise but seeing as the server was running HP’s SmartArray RAID controller, the boot device configures was stored as /dev/cciss/c0d0
So, in order to get things working, here is what I did.
- In /etc/grub.conf – add the following line – boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
- Locate your device.map file and make sure it looks like this
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0 - Run Grub like this (from the installation disc in rescue mode)
/sbin/grub –batch –device-map=<path>/device.map –config-file=<path>/grub.conf –no-floppy
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
This should successfully install grub on the SmartArray RAID and your system should now be able to boot on its own. I sure hope this helps and saves you the hours it took me to figure it out.
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