darilon
May 8th, 2012, 11:50 PM
EDIT: I solved the problem. After burning about 10 different linux distros and having each one fail a pattern emerged. For some reason, it could read the installers up till the point where a kernel was loaded and then there was a problem finding modules after that. Swapping the optical drive was the solution. Whether it's hardware or a buggy optical driver, I don't know, but at least the problem's solved.
I'm pretty sure this is an issue with drivers or something for the optical drive on an HP/Compaq Proliant ML570 server that was donated to our school.
Here's the situation:
I have the above computer (2 Xeon 1.7ghz/512k L2/3Mb L3 - 32bit) about 5gb RAM, 11 15k rpm ultra 320 scsi hdd's (5 72.8 Gb, 6 36.4 gb). When I try to install 12.04 Server, I get as far as "Loading installer components from CD and it gives a nice big error window stating "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version available in the archive" - the message continues, but not much point in typing it all here. Syslog shows errors mostly relating to "I/O error, dev sr0, sector" and a different sector error for each. I've verified the CD on several other machines, so it's a good burn (I know how to burn an ISO). The optical drive in the box looks like it's connected by an IDE cable so it's likely not a scsi driver issue.
Does anyone have any ideas how to proceed with this? I'm pulling my hair out right now. It's a nice piece of equipment and I'd like to set it up with my information systems class before the end of the school year.
I'm pretty sure this is an issue with drivers or something for the optical drive on an HP/Compaq Proliant ML570 server that was donated to our school.
Here's the situation:
I have the above computer (2 Xeon 1.7ghz/512k L2/3Mb L3 - 32bit) about 5gb RAM, 11 15k rpm ultra 320 scsi hdd's (5 72.8 Gb, 6 36.4 gb). When I try to install 12.04 Server, I get as far as "Loading installer components from CD and it gives a nice big error window stating "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version available in the archive" - the message continues, but not much point in typing it all here. Syslog shows errors mostly relating to "I/O error, dev sr0, sector" and a different sector error for each. I've verified the CD on several other machines, so it's a good burn (I know how to burn an ISO). The optical drive in the box looks like it's connected by an IDE cable so it's likely not a scsi driver issue.
Does anyone have any ideas how to proceed with this? I'm pulling my hair out right now. It's a nice piece of equipment and I'd like to set it up with my information systems class before the end of the school year.