Intel S2600CP boot problems

[blackpaw]

Am testing a converted vSphere sever with proxmox. Prior to this it never had problems with vSphere so I believe the hardware is ok.

- Intel S2600CP Motherboard
- 64GB RAM
- New Intel 535 120GB SSD boot drive
- 6 WD Velociraptor 600GB drives connected to the MB SAS ports (experimenting with ZFS for them).

3.4 Installs fine, I update to the latest and install the 3.10.0-11-pve kernel.

But about 1 in 3 boots it fails to mount the boot partitions and hangs - which I discovered the hard way with a remote reboot

I have tried with ZFS and EXT4 for the boot drive.

Photo of boot screen error for a ZFS boot drive attached. A reboot after that was successful.

I believe the i8042 error refers to the USB keyboard/mouse and can be ignored.

 

[dietmar]

Maybe it helps if you add the rootdelay parameter, like suggested here;

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/20063-PVE-3-3-does-not-boot-with-kernel-3-10-0-4

 

[blackpaw]

Thanks Dietmar, interesting reading. I'll try it out Monday.

 

[jdrews]

@blackpaw did rootdelay solve your problem?

 

[blackpaw]

@blackpaw did rootdelay solve your problem?

Yes it did, no problems since.