Nizpiz
May 9th, 2012, 06:06 AM
I am attempting to install 12.04 64 on a Dell PowerEdge R710 with the goal of configuring a network traffic analyzer. The server has the SAS6IR RAID controller with four 146G SAS drives. The controller only supports RAID 0 and 1, so I configured the four drives as two RAID 1 Virtual Disks.
I downloaded the server .ISO and burned it to a DVD. The first time I installed it, I used guided partitioning with LVM. Everything seemed to install properly, but after the reboot and a brief flash of GRUB, the screen went blank. I left it there for a few hours while I was off doing other things, but it remained in that state so I power-cycled the server by holding the power button. When it finished booting again, I was presented with GRUB and selected the 12.04 installation to boot; however, it did not boot and instead spammed the screen with errors. I can't recall the specific errors just now, but they were something like 'wrong page' and 'unknown partition'.
At first I thought maybe the firmware was too old, so I downloaded the Dell SUU .ISOs and upgraded to the latest. This dod not work. Next, I thought it might be the DVD, so I ran the integrity check after booting from the DVD. The DVD is fine though. Then I thought maybe it was the automagic partitioning, so I set up the partitions manually using only one RAID 1 Disk as using the first 300M for boot using EXT4, and the rest for LVM. In LVM I made a single group with three volumes; 2G swap, 30G root as EXT4, and the rest home as EXT4. This still had the same results as above; one reboot hangs with no putput for several hours, then another reboot gives the above errors.
Right now, I think it may be LVM, so I am reinstalling once more and plan to manually partition without LVM. At the same time, I am downloading 10.04.3.
If anyone has any pointers, I'd greatly appreciate some assistance.
I downloaded the server .ISO and burned it to a DVD. The first time I installed it, I used guided partitioning with LVM. Everything seemed to install properly, but after the reboot and a brief flash of GRUB, the screen went blank. I left it there for a few hours while I was off doing other things, but it remained in that state so I power-cycled the server by holding the power button. When it finished booting again, I was presented with GRUB and selected the 12.04 installation to boot; however, it did not boot and instead spammed the screen with errors. I can't recall the specific errors just now, but they were something like 'wrong page' and 'unknown partition'.
At first I thought maybe the firmware was too old, so I downloaded the Dell SUU .ISOs and upgraded to the latest. This dod not work. Next, I thought it might be the DVD, so I ran the integrity check after booting from the DVD. The DVD is fine though. Then I thought maybe it was the automagic partitioning, so I set up the partitions manually using only one RAID 1 Disk as using the first 300M for boot using EXT4, and the rest for LVM. In LVM I made a single group with three volumes; 2G swap, 30G root as EXT4, and the rest home as EXT4. This still had the same results as above; one reboot hangs with no putput for several hours, then another reboot gives the above errors.
Right now, I think it may be LVM, so I am reinstalling once more and plan to manually partition without LVM. At the same time, I am downloading 10.04.3.
If anyone has any pointers, I'd greatly appreciate some assistance.