[Bug 255647] Re: Hardy Install constructs GRUB config incorrectly when using PCI RAID card with IDE drives attached to it

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[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Hardy Install constructs GRUB config incorrectly when using PCI RAID
  card with IDE drives attached to it

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  I have a PC with an Asrock motherboard with one SATA drive connected
  to onboard SATA port and three IDE drives on a PCI RAID card's IDE
  ports. I have booted with 8.04.1 i386 live CD and it put the SATA
  drive behind the three IDE drives in the /dev/sd* order (SATA drive
  became sdd). All the drives and partitions on them could be mounted
  properly.

  I have installed Ubuntu Hardy using the live CD onto the SATA drive.
  The installation went without problem, but at the first boot the GRUB
  menu appeared and if any option was selected, the error message "Error
  22: No such partition" appeared.

  After some investigation I found out that during boot time, when GRUB gets loaded it doesn't see the IDE drives connected to the PCI RAID card, so for GRUB the system (and only) drive was hd0 (sda), but the installation configured the menu.lst and devices.map in a way that the SATA drive was hd3 (sdd).
  Actually I cannot even select the IDE drives in BIOS if I want to specify the boot order, but they get shown in the list of connected HDs.

  After editing the menu.lst to refer to hd0 instead of hd3 the system
  booted properly. This is my first PCI RAID card, so I'm not sure it is
  normal that the drives connected to it cannot be seen during boot
  time. I still don't understand why Ubuntu identifies the IDE drives
  first as sda, sdb and sdc, and only after them comes the SATA drive
  connected directly to the motherboard as sdd.

  Let me know if any additional information is needed.

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