Smart2 2.6.x grub - no drives shown

[ak7]

I'm having a spot of trouble getting grub configured on a new install.

System
Compaq Proliant 1850R
512meg Ram
Dual 550MHZ Pentium 3 processors
Smart 221 Array controller

Booting from 2004.3.r1 minimal

I believe there is an issue with device naming conventions and the Smart 2 series controlers. I have succesfully installed the 2.4 kernel using the guide located in these forums. The 2.6 kernel is a different beast.

Manually configuring grub:
grub >root ( {press tab, no drives show up}

grub>root (hd0,0)
Error 21: Selected Disk does not exist

It appears that grub can not find any of the drives

The array configures in fdisk as follows
p1 = boot
p2 = swap
p3 = Compaq System Utilitues
p4 = /

The contents of /dev/ida are
c0d0
c0d0p1
c0d0p2
c0d0p3
c0d0p4

I've tried /etc/fstab as follows:
/dev/ida/c0d0p1 /boot xfs
/dev/ida/c0d0p4 / reiserfs
/dev/ida/c0d0p2 swap

Also tried this version
/dev/ida/c0d0/part1 /boot xfs
/dev/ida/c0d0/part4 / reiserfs
/dev/ida/c0d0/part2 swap

Am I getting caught in a squeeze between the devfs and udev naming conventions?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[ak7]

I was able to boot the system using lilo.

grub still can't find any drives. Is this an issue with grub or my system?

[ak7]

After lots of digging and a little trial and error....

I believe the issue is that grub and udev combined with the cpqarray driver do not communicate effectively with each other.

To correct the problem I created /boot/grub/device.map as follows
(hd0) /dev/ida/c0d0

I then loaded grub as follows
grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map

The grub shell was able to find the drives and I was able to follow the install directions in step 6 located here

System boots fine now

[jackieTHEjokeman]

Beautiful, this was EXACTLY what I needed. None of the other "Proliant/Grub" threads helped. Thanks.