On 10/04/05, Johnny C. Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org> wrote:

>Some people have expressed interest in exactly what this box is.  It's
>a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with PERC 4/Di embedded RAID with two Xeon 3.2GHz
>processors, 2GB RAM, and 3 150GB drives set up as a RAID-5.  I had an
>annoying time installing grub on this thing since grub didn't grok
>the logical drive exported by the RAID card (it didn't correspond to
>any "BIOS drive"), which reminds me that I should commit my changes
>to the sysutils/grub package.

Ooooh. I'm trying to do exactly the same thing: install grub on a
RAID-1 system. (twe driver, and the disk appears as ld0) and it's not
playing ball. What changes did you make to grub? Anything extensive?
Do you have patches available?

Regards

Chris