I have a fleet of 2970s and we are upgrading the hardrives on the motherboard SATA ports (A/B not the PERC backplane) when a "detecting hardware" is performed the system crashes, reboots and gives an E1422 error code (useless video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhyMeUHJar4).
We narrowed it down to a motherboard BIOS issue, if we remove the SSD or add noprobe to the kernel the installer does not crash.
But when specifing "noprobe" it does not appear to have the loopback driver (and likely many more).
ERROR: failed to mount loopback device /dev/loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /tmp/install.img: (null) INFO: mounting stage2 failed
Next steps, I already lost my vacation to this, I hope to keep my sanity:
Load drivers from kernel boot line? Blacklist drivers on the kernel boot line? Serial cable logging of boot? Other?
-Jason
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Am 31.08.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us:
I have a fleet of 2970s and we are upgrading the hardrives on the motherboard SATA ports (A/B not the PERC backplane) when a "detecting hardware" is performed the system crashes, reboots and gives an E1422 error code (useless video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhyMeUHJar4).
We narrowed it down to a motherboard BIOS issue, if we remove the SSD or add noprobe to the kernel the installer does not crash.
Is that actually a supported configuration (in the Dell-sense)?.
Which is the „primary" hard drive then? SATA or PERC?
Have you booted any other OS on it? FreeBSD 10? CentOS7?
Ubuntu?
Note that I have no idea about Dell servers. I’ve never worked with them in my professional life - but my experience is that trying the same thing more than three times in a row is a waste of time (and nerves: I can literally see my life being shortened by watching server-BIOS boot-up screens…)
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 16:54 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)
Am 31.08.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us:
I have a fleet of 2970s and we are upgrading the hardrives
on the motherboard SATA ports (A/B not the PERC backplane) when a "detecting hardware" is performed the system crashes, reboots and gives an E1422 error code (useless video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhyMeUHJar4).
We narrowed it down to a motherboard BIOS issue, if we
remove the SSD or add noprobe to the kernel the installer does not crash.
Is that actually a supported configuration (in the Dell-sense)?.
Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing from spinning drives to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath.
Which is the "primary" hard drive then? SATA or PERC?
It will be the SATA.
Have you booted any other OS on it?
Centos 5/6 32/64
FreeBSD 10? CentOS7?
About to try that.
Ubuntu?
Note that I have no idea about Dell servers. I've never worked with them in my professional life - but my experience is that trying the same thing more than three times in a row
Agreed, but there are 20+ servers and twenty plus SSDs. The SSDs work fine in the non-PE2970 systems with RHEL/Centos 6 64bit.
is a waste of time (and nerves: I can literally see my life being shortened by watching server-BIOS boot-up screens.)
-Jason
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Am 31.08.2014 um 23:03 schrieb Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us:
Is that actually a supported configuration (in the Dell-sense)?.
Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing from spinning drives to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath.
You can always try to install RHEL6 and open a ticket with RedHat if that fails, too….
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 17:09 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 andaSSD (hardware probing issues)
Am 31.08.2014 um 23:03 schrieb Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us:
Is that actually a supported configuration (in the Dell-sense)?.
Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing
from spinning drives to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath.
You can always try to install RHEL6 and open a ticket with RedHat if that fails, too..
Started that route, it got pushed to Dell as a HW issue. But then again I was unable to articulate the cause (BIOS+SSD = invalid CPU instruction) back then.
-Jason
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On 8/31/2014 2:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing from spinning drives to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath.
is the SATA interface in AHCI mode or legacy IDE emulation?
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 17:34 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)
On 8/31/2014 2:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing
from spinning drives to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath.
is the SATA interface in AHCI mode or legacy IDE emulation?
Good question, I will ask Dell. The BIOS only has Off and Auto as choices. Is there a preference I should shoot for?
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On 8/31/2014 3:15 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
Good question, I will ask Dell. The BIOS only has Off and Auto as choices. Is there a preference I should shoot for?
ACHI is pretty much required for SSD support.
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