Problem reboot after installation on Dell R410 with 4 SAS disks

[yatesco]

Hi all,

I have a Dell R410 with 4 15x SAS disks - the first two are RAID1 the other two are non-raid, so there are three disks presented for installation:

/dev/sda (non-raid)
/dev/sdb (non-raid)
/dev/sdc (raid)

Unfortunately, the installation works but reboot states it cannot find any media on the disk from which to boot. I have tried installing on /dev/sda and /dev/sdc, both times failed. I haven't tried /dev/sdb but I suspect it will be the same problem.

Lenny has the same issue as well. CentOS, ESXi and XenServer all work fine (installing onto /dev/sdc).

I really want to get this machine into production as soon as possible, and at the moment it looking like I will go with XenServer (ESXi just doesn't scratch my itch - the virtual console for Windows 7 was excruciatingly slow.)

Any ideas?

Ta.

 

[tom]

Hi all,

I have a Dell R410 with 4 15x SAS disks - the first two are RAID1 the other two are non-raid, so there are three disks presented for installation:

/dev/sda (non-raid)
/dev/sdb (non-raid)
/dev/sdc (raid)

Unfortunately, the installation works but reboot states it cannot find any media on the disk from which to boot. I have tried installing on /dev/sda and /dev/sdc, both times failed. I haven't tried /dev/sdb but I suspect it will be the same problem.

Lenny has the same issue as well. CentOS, ESXi and XenServer all work fine (installing onto /dev/sdc).

I really want to get this machine into production as soon as possible, and at the moment it looking like I will go with XenServer (ESXi just doesn't scratch my itch - the virtual console for Windows 7 was excruciatingly slow.)

Any ideas?

Ta.

so use the latest ISO? 1.5-4627-3?

http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/cms/upload/bittorrent/proxmox-ve_1.5-4627-3.iso

 

[yatesco]

so use the latest ISO? 1.5-4627-3?

Er, yeah, I did

 

[dietmar]

Unfortunately, the installation works but reboot states it cannot find any media on the disk from which to boot.

Does it display the grub boot menu? If not, try to change the boot order in the bios.

 

[yatesco]

No, it doesn't display grub. It doesn't matter which device I choose to boot from - the behaviour is the same as you get with a brand new computer, before you have installed the OS.

 

[dietmar]

What if you remove the other drives - does it install then?

 

[yatesco]

I am not sure - I don't have physical access to the box.

I do know:

- the drive that can be selected to boot in the bios is the raid card (hardware RAID1 with 2 300GB SAS 15k) which appears as /dev/sdc
- other OSs install fine, which rules out (to my mind) hardware issues
- installing on the other two cards (non-raid) /dev/sda /dev/sdb doesn't work as they cannot be selected for boot in the bios

I suspect this is one of those wonderful Linux issues where if you know it is as simple as 'ah yes, you need to add this switch to grub' but if you don't it takes weeks I know the support guys spent 2 days trying to install debian Lenny on this box and failed (because of this reason).