lilo-installer fails on HP (Compaq) SmartArray controllers (/dev/cciss)

[Alexander "Leo" Bergolth]

Binary package hint: lilo-installer

During installation of 7.04 beta, the lilo-installer fails when using /dev/cciss/c0d0 (Compaq SmartArray) as boot/root device. (This bug was already present in previous Ubuntu releases.)

The reason are some checks in lilo-installer.postinst that assume that the device has to look like /dev/[hs]d[a-z].
However, SmartArray controllers use device-names like /dev/cciss/c0d0 and partition names like /dev/cciss/c0d0p1.

The attached patch fixes this issue.

--leo

P.S.: Note that the patch only fixes installation in the MBR, installing Lilo in a partition would need further fixes.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

Suddenly I catched this bug, too.
Installing Feisty didn't let me install lilo on a cciss device.

Grub works as expected.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

lilo-installer (1.22ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Handle /dev/cciss/* devices (LP: #103291).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:06:45 +0100

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks, Colin. Do you think this fix is appropriate for Dapper, too?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Yes, dapper has roughly the same code modulo indenting. If the fix is confirmed to work on gutsy then I think we should include it.

Note that I used a different patch from that provided by the bug reporter; there were a few cases missing there and in general I took a slightly different approach, though the spirit is the same.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks, Colin! Let's wait for Stephan's test. I'll accept it once we got a successful report.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Stephan, this should be testable in gutsy. Do you have some time to give this a try? Thank you!

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

HI Martin, Colin,

thx for the fix, it works for me here...tested it on a dl360g4p...

\sh

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into dapper-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This was tested by Stephan Hermann and by the IS team in the data center. verified.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to dapper-updates.