Hi all,
I got the previously mentioned Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM and Perc4e raid controller. Installation went well and the raid is pretty fast even with level 5.
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Googling a bit, got me to install kernel-PAE, this went well, but CentOS still sees only 256MB.
Googling some more, I found a bios update was suggested and might do the trick. Checking what bios version the server had, revealed it was A02. Upon checking the Dell support site I saw they had a version A07, which I downloaded.
The file was in bin format and executable via the CLI. Installation of the A07-version went well too with no errors, and it told me to reboot the machine to activate/start the update.
Upon reboot, at post, it said the update failed. Now what?? I'm at a loss here. This is my first Dell Poweredge-server and I lack knowledge in the tricks-department with this one.
What do I do now? Knowing the Dell-support, I turn to this list in hope of some useful hints in this matter.
Thx for any insights.
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Hi all,
I got the previously mentioned Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM and Perc4e raid controller. Installation went well and the raid is pretty fast even with level 5.
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Googling a bit, got me to install kernel-PAE, this went well, but CentOS still sees only 256MB.
does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages
what does the rescue mode says? cd1 of 5.2 i386/x86_64 ?
<snip bios update>
Upon reboot, at post, it said the update failed. Now what?? I'm at a loss here. This is my first Dell Poweredge-server and I lack knowledge in the tricks-department with this one.
ask the dell poweredge mailing list, this is pretty off topic here.
Tru
Tru Huynh <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:15 AM:
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Hi all,
I got the previously mentioned Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM and Perc4e raid controller. Installation went well and the raid is pretty fast even with level 5.
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Googling a bit, got me to install kernel-PAE, this went well, but CentOS still sees only 256MB.
does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages
Yupp, pressing F2 at boot and checking in bios says it's 4GB DDR2 ECC IIRC.
Is memtest available at an almost full install?
Will be back shortly with /proc/meminfo and boot-messages from /var/log.
what does the rescue mode says? cd1 of 5.2 i386/x86_64 ?
Did a netinstall, so don't have cd1. Am downloading those now though. Might take a while... 8-) Be back with results soonish.
Tru
Thx for fast starterhelp! This is why I like this list! ;-)
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:35:51AM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
Tru Huynh <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:15 AM:
...
does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages
Yupp, pressing F2 at boot and checking in bios says it's 4GB DDR2 ECC IIRC.
Is memtest available at an almost full install?
press F2 at the cdrom prompt will show you the memtest option ;) boot: memtest86
what does the rescue mode says? cd1 of 5.2 i386/x86_64 ?
Did a netinstall, so don't have cd1. Am downloading those now though. Might take a while... 8-) Be back with results soonish.
you can boot into rescue mode from netboot.
-> append "rescue method=...."
Tru
Tru Huynh <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:48 AM:
does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages
Yupp, pressing F2 at boot and checking in bios says it's 4GB DDR2 ECC IIRC.
Is memtest available at an almost full install?
press F2 at the cdrom prompt will show you the memtest option ;) boot: memtest86
Oh... Locate memtest86 listed in /boot... Guess if I feel stupid now. <rolling eyes>
what does the rescue mode says? cd1 of 5.2 i386/x86_64 ?
Did a netinstall, so don't have cd1. Am downloading those now though. Might take a while... 8-) Be back with results soonish.
you can boot into rescue mode from netboot.
-> append "rescue method=...."
Ah, simple... My defense is that this is the the first time I'm using netinstall. Sorry for any n00b-statements from my side. 8-}
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
:
Sorry for any n00b-statements from my side. 8-}
The truth always comes out eventually....
:-)
mhr
Sorin Srbu <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:36 AM:
does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages
Will be back shortly with /proc/meminfo and boot-messages from /var/log.
Meminfo: MemTotal: 255320 kB MemFree: 5728 kB Buffers: 83704 kB Cached: 60084 kB SwapCached: 29756 kB Active: 115256 kB Inactive: 98380 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 255320 kB LowFree: 5728 kB SwapTotal: 4096532 kB SwapFree: 3990252 kB Dirty: 12 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 63780 kB Mapped: 22460 kB Slab: 24684 kB PageTables: 5260 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 4224192 kB Committed_AS: 454592 kB VmallocTotal: 772088 kB VmallocUsed: 4732 kB VmallocChunk: 767136 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
Boot messages from /var/log/messages (hopefully the relevant part): Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-92.el5 (mockbuild@builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 18:49:47 EDT 2008 Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffc0000 (usable) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000ffc0000 - 000000000ffcfc00 (ACPI data) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000ffcfc00 - 000000000ffff000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000fec90000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available. Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: 255MB LOWMEM available.
Couldn't get memtest to work...
what does the rescue mode says? cd1 of 5.2 i386/x86_64 ?
When I have cd1, what do I look for?
Daniel Bird <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:57 AM:
Sorin@Gmail wrote:
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM.
Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb
It is in fact. Lemme' check. BRB.
BTW, memtest86 says 255MB RAM.
Sorin Srbu mailto:sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:14 PM:
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM.
Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb
It is in fact. Lemme' check. BRB.
Hot diggety, that did it!! 4GB RAM available now. You guys are just golden, thx a bunch!
What is that "install mode" for anyway?? As I said earlier, this is my first Dell-server ever and as it's a refurbished machine, I didn't get any manuals and stuff... Probably will need to visit support.dell.com in a near future.
You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? Figuring it might have been a deficient RAM-issue, with 4GB RAM it might work now...?
Sorin Srbu <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:22 PM:
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM.
Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb
It is in fact. Lemme' check. BRB.
Hot diggety, that did it!! 4GB RAM available now. You guys are just golden, thx a bunch!
What is that "install mode" for anyway?? As I said earlier, this is my first Dell-server ever and as it's a refurbished machine, I didn't get any manuals and stuff... Probably will need to visit support.dell.com in a near future.
You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? Figuring it might have been a deficient RAM-issue, with 4GB RAM it might work now...?
Heh, googling for "poweredge install mode on" reveals it's not only having had this problem. ;-)
Sorin Srbu mailto:sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:32 PM:
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM.
Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb
It is in fact. Lemme' check. BRB.
Hot diggety, that did it!! 4GB RAM available now. You guys are just golden, thx a bunch!
What is that "install mode" for anyway?? As I said earlier, this is my first Dell-server ever and as it's a refurbished machine, I didn't get any manuals and stuff... Probably will need to visit support.dell.com in a near future.
You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? Figuring it might have been a deficient RAM-issue, with 4GB RAM it might work now...?
Heh, googling for "poweredge install mode on" reveals it's not only having had this problem. ;-)
Very helpful indeed. Not!
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c... s&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&dn=1082724
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Heh, googling for "poweredge install mode
on" reveals it's not only having
had this problem. ;-)
Very helpful indeed. Not!
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c... s&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&dn=1082724
My friend you are on a public mailing list and are conducting conversations with yourself saying basically nothing. Dell have forums for users too.
Regards, Vandaman.
Vandaman <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:46 PM:
Heh, googling for "poweredge install mode
on" reveals it's not only having
had this problem. ;-)
Very helpful indeed. Not!
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c... s&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&dn=1082724
My friend you are on a public mailing list and are conducting conversations with yourself saying basically nothing. Dell have forums for users too.
I thought I'd share my findings. I'm done now, so you won't have to listen to me anymore.
Sorin Srbu wrote:
I thought I'd share my findings. I'm done now, so you won't have to listen to me anymore.
Look at the following post and welcome to the CentOS Mailing List. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/065626.html
Trim your mails, turn off html in your client and do some basic "homework" on your problem offlist and you'll be a star.
Regards, Vandaman.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Vandaman vandaman2002-rt@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Look at the following post and welcome to the CentOS Mailing List. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/065626.html
Trim your mails, turn off html in your client and do some basic "homework" on your problem offlist and you'll be a star.
This list is for people who need, want or can give help w.r.t. CentOS and peripherally related issues.
For someone whose name does not even appear in the archives yet, you seem awfully hostile to everyone who deviates even slightly from the norm here, including people who are long-time members of this list. Tone it down, and if you have nothing helpful or advisory to say w.r.t. the problem presented, kindly save our time and stop wasting your own by typing it in.
Yes, I prefer not to read people's personal ramblings, and I don't like top posters, unedited response trails and so on, but you make me look nice about it....
FTR, Sorin's posts were all rather nicely trimmed, though I admit I was wondering when he was going to stop Rumsfelding us.
Lighten up. Someday, you, too, may need help and not be quite so particular with the guidelines.
mhr
MHR wrote:
This list is for people who need, want or can give help w.r.t. CentOS and peripherally related issues.
That's why I posted my question about Xboard on CentOS 4 here. I guess you did not see this nor the question about mailing list spam.
For someone whose name does not even appear in the archives yet, you seem awfully hostile to everyone who deviates even slightly from the norm here, including people who are long-time members of this list.
There is no hostility in asking people not to conduct conversations with themselves or to "style up". Back in the day you would be mincemeat for doing what people are doing here. My client lists 26 emails per page and it was half full of Sorin Srbu replies. You are going to be called out for that sort of thing on a public mailing list.
Lighten up. Someday, you, too, may need help and not be quite so particular with the guidelines.
You can tell I'm already lightened up - basic google searches on find on Linux has about 4.8 million replies but I didn't mention this to the dozen or so responses to that topic. Sorin Srbu contacted me offlist and you can bet what was said remains offlist.
Regards, Vandaman.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Vandaman vandaman2002-rt@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
That's why I posted my question about Xboard on CentOS 4 here. I guess you did not see this nor the question about mailing list spam.
I didn't see a need for comment - I imagine the hundreds of other who also did not comment on these probably did see them, too.
There is no hostility in asking people not to conduct conversations with themselves or to "style up". Back in the day you would be mincemeat for doing what people are doing here....
I remember those days quite clearly, thank you. I think I even have a few flame wars saved, somewhere.
But things have changed, and this list is one of the most helpful and least inflammatory around - viz. the off topic conversation (?) about spam that won't quit (you have added a few pence of your own, there, too...).
You can tell I'm already lightened up - basic google searches on find on Linux has about 4.8 million replies but I didn't mention this to the dozen or so responses to that topic. Sorin Srbu contacted me offlist and you can bet what was said remains offlist.
Actually, mention of the google searches probably would not have hurt. However, even I posted a helpful comment (I hope) in that thread, largely because I didn't think to blast off a (new age) RTFM/GIYF response. Had you done so, I wouldn't have raised a peep. (And, to me, that's different - I've been soundly and deservedly lambasted for failing to do basic research, like a google search, for some of my very basic questions that are easily answered, so I must be feeling good this morning for me not to have said so.)
Thanks for the reasoned response.
mhr
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:32 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Vandaman vandaman2002-rt@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Look at the following post and welcome to the CentOS Mailing List. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/065626.html
Trim your mails, turn off html in your client and do some basic "homework" on your problem offlist and you'll be a star.
This list is for people who need, want or can give help w.r.t. CentOS and peripherally related issues.
For someone whose name does not even appear in the archives yet, you seem awfully hostile to everyone who deviates even slightly from the norm here, including people who are long-time members of this list. Tone it down, and if you have nothing helpful or advisory to say w.r.t. the problem presented, kindly save our time and stop wasting your own by typing it in.
AMEN Mark! I waited several days to reply to him, after the blasting I got. And, I do not remember him being an active participant in this mailing list before. I recognize and deeply appreciate many of the people who are and have been so helpful, for such a long time, in this mailing list. He's not one of them.
Yes, I prefer not to read people's personal ramblings, and I don't like top posters, unedited response trails and so on, but you make me look nice about it....
FTR, Sorin's posts were all rather nicely trimmed, though I admit I was wondering when he was going to stop Rumsfelding us.
Lighten up. Someday, you, too, may need help and not be quite so particular with the guidelines.
That's also true. It might even be me or another newbie who has the answer to his problem. However, it is so obvious that he knows *EVERYTHING* I'm not sure why he has begun to participate in this mailing list. Simply to tell others how to post or not post. Has he helped anyone here?
If one of the Developers wants us out, we will leave, but, I do not believe the Developers agree with what vandaman writes.
Hi all,
Currently working with migrating from RHEL3 to CentOS 5.2 x86 on test computer. When I tried to run "yum install rsh*" in order to install the rsh-server package, yum jumped out to the CLI stating there was "no key for this package" or something o that effect.
I then used the Add/remove applet on the same machine and searched for rsh-server, found it and installed it. No problems.
Then I went over to my other migration test-machine and did the same from the CLI, there it worked flawlessly.
Why did the latter installation work and the CLI-install didn't? I'm at a loss here, possibly forgetting something really trivial... Obviously some keys seem to be missing on the former machine, but which and why?
TIA.
Sorin Srbu wrote on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:22:15 +0200:
Currently working with migrating from RHEL3 to CentOS 5.2 x86 on test computer. When I tried to run "yum install rsh*" in order to install the rsh-server package, yum jumped out to the CLI stating there was "no key for this package" or something o that effect.
First: please do not hijack threads. If you want to send a new question then hit "new message" and not "reply"! Second: This can occur if you use a non-default repo and yum wants to use it for an rpm that is unsigned. It would have been more helpful to quote the exact yum output.
Kai
Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:36 PM:
First: please do not hijack threads. If you want to send a new question then hit "new message" and not "reply"!
Sorry, didn't realise. Won't happen again.
Second: This can occur if you use a non-default repo and yum wants to use it for an rpm that is unsigned. It would have been more helpful to quote the exact yum output.
I'll see if I can reproduce this problem on a third test-machine, and get the complete error message for you.
FWIW, I got the error message with a clean and updated CentOS 5.2 x86-install, with only the standard base, extras etc-repos enabled. I then added the rpmforge-repo to get some other software, and then tried the rsh-server installation again with the same error.
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Hi all,
Currently working with migrating from RHEL3 to CentOS 5.2 x86 on test computer. When I tried to run "yum install rsh*" in order to install the rsh-server
Try
yum install rsh*
or
yum install "rsh*"
This allows "*" to be passed on to yum unmolested by the shell.
Toby Bluhm <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 3:18 PM:
Currently working with migrating from RHEL3 to CentOS 5.2 x86 on test computer. When I tried to run "yum install rsh*" in order to install the rsh-server
Try
yum install rsh*
or
yum install "rsh*"
This allows "*" to be passed on to yum unmolested by the shell.
That's a new one. I'll keep this one in mind. Thx.
Sorin Srbu wrote:
What is that "install mode" for anyway??
According to my Dell docs, some OS's had/have trouble with >2GB RAM during install, so this was the recommended setting for new installs.
You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well?
I have a hunch that you will....but I'm not promising anything! ;-)
ATB
Dan
Daniel Bird <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:37 PM:
What is that "install mode" for anyway??
According to my Dell docs, some OS's had/have trouble with >2GB RAM during install, so this was the recommended setting for new installs.
Ok, fair enough. Thx for the info.
You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well?
I have a hunch that you will....but I'm not promising anything! ;-)
I just finished the bios update a few minutes ago, it worked. I'm happy. 8-)
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Bird dbird@sgul.ac.uk wrote:
Sorin@Gmail wrote:
However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM.
Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb
Yes.. that will limit the memory the OS sees to 256MB for various older OS's that freak out if they see more than that. You should also check that the BIOS is up to date. Some BIOS's have weird memory issues.
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