HOWTO install Gentoo on a COMPAQ DL380

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Installation trace for Compaq DL 380

Setting up gentoo is a bit awkward because it took me about 3 hours to find out how to get the livecd working:

boot: gentoo nox nodetect i8042.nomux ide=nodma

modprobe e100 modprobe cciss

fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d0 fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d1 fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d2 mkfs.ext2 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 mkswap /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 swapon /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 mkfs.ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3

mkfs.ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 mkfs.ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d2p1

the next funny part is grub, it doesnt work straigt forward

first create a device mapping for the array where your boot partition is located (in my case this is c0d0p1)

echo "(hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0" > /boot/grub/device.map

grub --device-map /boot/grub/device.map

root (hd0,0) setupp (hd0)