James,

Actually we noticed that we've been running some old setup for our PXE boot/kickstart setup, so we're going to try just doing it with UEFI and see where that gets us.

PEV

________________________________ From: James Peltier james_peltier@sfu.ca Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 10:47 AM To: Virgo, Paul E. (GSFC-610.2)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]; CentOS mailing list Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [CentOS] Install of CentOS 7.6 On Dell PowerEdge R830 Hangs

________________________________________ From: CentOS centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of mark m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: July 3, 2019 7:41 AM To: Virgo, Paul E. (GSFC-610.2)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]; CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of CentOS 7.6 On Dell PowerEdge R830 Hangs

Virgo, Paul E. (GSFC-610.2)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] via CentOS wrote:

All,

Seems like the latest CentOS 7.6 and I are not playing well together, these days.

I'm attempting to use our pxeboot setup to install the latest CentOS 7 on a Dell PowerEdge R830. The install starts then gets to a certain point and hangs. That certain point is: FADT indicates ASPM is unsupported, using BIOS configuration

Now I've tried to see where the Active Server Power Management setting is in the BIOS, but have had no luck whatsoever. Any thoughts or ideas??

Not that I'm enamored of it, but why BIOS and not UEFI? Dell's running newer m/b that like UEFI over BIOS.

Also, have you looked in the BIOS to see what those settings are?

mark

Try updating the BIOS/UEFI image first. Dell has been notorious for requiring BIOS updates for things like video cards and microprocessor code updates. You may have to install a newer BIOS before you can get the OS on.