Install in a Dell PowerEdge 2900

Hi there, I have an Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server. But it do not boot arch. I read that need some certified or something like that. Iso image is good, it boot from other computers without problem. Any idea?

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Are you sure your CD is valid? (Is it a real CD or USB key?). Are booting in BIOS or in UEFI mode? If it is UEFI, disable secure boot in the firmware. How have you created your CD? If you simply copy all the files, I think it will boot in UEFI mode, because the firmware looks for a file; but not in BIOS mode, where you have to burn the raw image. If you have still some problems, be sure to describe the problem and what you have done in details.
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Lucas,
We had similar problems with a PowerEdge 1550 a few weeks back, but found that turning off the ACPI settings (see below) and using the latest DCA diskette from the Sun website, everything worked perfectly including the AIC-7899 and dual NIC detection.
A possible workaround is to disable the kernel ACPI module. If the problem
is happening during installation, the boot floppy must be modified. Mount the
boot floppy and add the following line to bootenv.rc:
setprop acpi-user-options '0x2'
Run the installation again, ACPI should be disabled and the installation
should continue without a problem.
If the problem occurs after installation the same line can be added to
the top of /etc/bootrc and ACPI will be disabled on the next reboot.
Hi all,
I've been trying to get Solaris 8 installed on a Dell
PowerEdge 2550 I just got in, and I'm not having any
luck. This is unfortunate, as its my one sole server
for a small biz I'm trying to get going. Sigh.
Anyway, the problem is that after booting off the CD
and installing the boot image onto the HD (which
seems to go fine), I reboot and it hangs at the:
Solaris Boot Loader Version 2.0
And that's it... can't get to the blue screen boot
manager and continue. I've tried the latest drivers
from Dell for the 7899, the Ultra160 drivers straight
from Adaptec... all for naught. Tried reconfiguring
(mostly turning stuff off) on the Adaptec, nada.
I called up Dell support, who were basically useless.
Told me some load of crap about "Well, we can't get
Solaris 8 to work on any of our stuff". Which is
odd, coz Sun lists this system as a supported
configuration, along with a bunch of other Dells.
Not to mention the tech on the sales call that told
d me it would work, along with the built-in PERC3 raid
controller. Which doesn't, of course.
Anyone had a similar problem that they've managed to
get around? Otherwise I'll have to call them to come
pick it back up. Which'll set me back another 2
weeks, sigh. Anyway,
Gory details:
PIII 1.26mhz
2 18.2GIG Fujitsu drives
Adaptec 7899
Built in PERC3/DI RAID controller (currently disabled
and completely unsupported)
2x2 split backplane.
I've also been trying the Solaris 9 EA install, but I
can't get it to configure the jumpstart directory
correctly. Anyone have a step-by-step for doing it?
Thanks,
Lucas.

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I am experiencing some trouble when I attempt to install Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge 800. It is equipped with two RAID disks controlled by a Dell CERC SATA 1.5/6ch (according to the BIOS).
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I have the same problem on a dell 750 with the SERC controller. I can add some more information but if you get a solution I would appreciate the detail.
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Hi,
I am having TWO PROBLEMS installing Solaris 8 on Dell PowerEdge 500SC.
This hardware spec is:
Pentium-III at 1GHz
256MB 133MHz ECC SDRAM
20GB 7200RPM ATA100 EIDE hard drive (on integrated ATA-100 controller)
48X EIDE CD-ROM drive (on integrated ATA-100 controller)
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more details: http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/esg_pedge_sc_towermain_servers_3_pedge_500sc.htm
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CD6-CD7
F50-F57
ACPI device: PNP0C01
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WARNING:/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1/ata@1 (ata1): timeout: about device, target=0 lun=0
WARNING:/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1/ata@1 (ata1): timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
WARNING:/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1/ata@1 (ata1): timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
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Hello Arch LInux community,
I am a newbee with good linux knowledge of working on linux but not much of systems administration. I am very much interested to install Arch Linux on my new desktop which is a Dell poweredge having hardware RAID 1(PERC .... controller). It has windows 7 OS on its first partition.
I saw on the controller's BIOS menu that there are 2 1tb hard drives with something like --:--:00 and --:--:01 labels. And they were partitioned into two logical volumes which are visible once I boot into Arch linux live CD as, /dev/sda (about 250GB, and has windows OS on it) and /dev/sdb (about 700GB).
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3    2103296 2615295    250.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
4    2615296 212330495    100.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
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A little bit more sub-headings or division of instructions, in the Beginner's wiki, based on the usage scenarios can be very beneficial for newbees like me.
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[ 0.748399] megasas: INIT adapter done
ERROR: device 'UUID=40e603e9-7285-4ec8-8a06-a579358a52a0' not found. Skipping fsck
ERROR: Unable to find root device 'UUID=40e603e9-7285-4ec8-8a06-a579358a52a0' .
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
Sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]#

Well, you can see your RAID partitions and you're getting GRUB to load, and you are even being dropped to the recovery shell which means that the /boot partition is being found and is accessible. All vary, vary good things.
I would boot into the Arch live CD/USB again. Then check the UUID of the / Root partition. To do this I just check the log listing of /dev/disk/by-uuid
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
Hopefully the UUID for the /root partition in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg is incorrect, and all you need to do is change it from 'UUID=40e603e9-7285-4ec8-8a06-a579358a52a0' to the correct UUID.
If the UUID is correct... then maybe the correct driver module is not complied into the initramfs. You could try adding that mdadm to the MODULES= list in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf then rebuild the initramfs again.
mkinitcpio -p linux
Hum..., the whole /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.... hum, You know... Maybe you need to change the line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
set root='hd1,msdos1'
The hd1 is the equivalent to /dev/sda and the msdos1 is the equivalent of the First Partition i.e. /dev/sda1.. (note this is my disk yours may correctly have different numbers and not be a msdos partition)... owe wait... hum, you know I am fairly sure that like is really the root disk where the /boot partition is and has no relation to the / Root partition... Someone clear that up please.... It is hard for me to recall and I have my / Root parition encrypted, so It is hard for me to make heads or tails of that one right now, but that could be the problem too i.e. try changing hd1 to hd2 or hd0 or something.
Owe, and it may be faster if you just make temporary corrections to the GRUB menu by hitting the "e" key on the menu entry you want to change then hit.. I think F10 to boot the modified entry. That way you don't need to keep booting into the Live CD/USB
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Yes there is a lot of information out there. Oracle 8.1.6,
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The issues on server 1 (file server) are no access to Windows Updates (0x80072EE2), certain users on other VPN sites having problems accessing certain areas of our Intranet that require authentication, odd problems using IE on the server - for example
I can go to Google, carry out a search but when I click on a result it just sits there waiting for Google. There are no issues with users on the same site, and there are no issues accessing the server shares from any site.
The issues on server 2 (Exchange server) are even more odd and have me rapidly pulling out my hair. With the site we can send and receive between this server and an old Exchange 2003 server with no problems, Public Folder replication from the old server
to the new is occurring with no problems and we can send messages with large attachments both to external users and users on other sites. However when we start looking at incoming connections this is where it gets odd. Incoming external messages over 4Mb are
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To my mind this looks like there is something on these servers which is messing with http/https/smtp when communicating outside the local subnet. I have checked for viruses and mal-ware and for testing purposes disabled AV and firewall but this makes no
difference.
I have two other PowerEdge server on another site with similar configurations which have been working fine for 18 months. The only big difference I can see between the servers is that these two are the only one where I used the Dell Systems Management disk
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From what I can see of the servers it does appear that somewhere along the line Dell have used files which are causing some networking issues on these two servers - can anyone advise me if there is a reasonably straight-forward way to remove the network
components form the servers and then reinstate from the Microsoft disk?
I have tried the fixed relating to Windows Update from the suggestion offered searching for 80072EE2.
I have tried installing the latest Dell drivers for the network adaptor, and also the latest Broadcom ones.
I have tried switching off various Offload settings on the NIC as suggested by other although that was more relating to Hyper-V issues.
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Many thanks, Eddie

Hi Eddie,
Based on your description, we have many different problems in two servers as below,
In the file server.
-> The issues on server 1 (file server) are no access to Windows Updates (0x80072EE2).
-> odd problems using IE on the server - for example I can go to Google, carry out a search but when I click on a result it just sits there waiting for Google.
I noticed that you mentioned that you have tried the fixed relating to Windows Update. Have we solved this issue? And another issue, IE could access Google but can’t access
the links in search result. It seems that this issues are related to name resolution. To verify if the name resolution works fine. Please ping the DNS server at first. If we can ping DNS server, we can also ping
www.google.com and other domain names to verify the function of name resolution. Please try to use ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns command in server 1. And the DNS port(53) was opened. After this, if the problem
still exist, please involve the administrator of DNS server to help verify if the domain name resolution has some problems.
-> certain users on other VPN sites having problems accessing certain areas of our Intranet that require authentication
I’m a little unclear about this part. If the VPN connection has set up successful, it is possible that the user need be authenticate when the user access some resource of the
Intranet. So what is the certain areas and what prompt we received.
In the Exchange server.
->Incoming external messages over 4Mb are delayed and eventually bounced - our provider says that they are getting timeouts. Incoming messages with
attachments from two other internal Exchange 2007 sites are getting delayed and from one sites are not getting through at all. Messages without attachments are not getting through at all. In the Exchange logs I am seeing Connection Timeout and Connection Dropped
messages.
-> I am very sure that the problem is not with message size as all parameter relating to message size are set to 100Mb.
We can send messages but we can’t receive messages, it was delayed or it can’t get through. And I notice that you mentioned that the message size is
not the problem. To verify if the network have problems about the size messages. We can also download a file whose size is over 5Mb from the Internet. If we can download the file, maybe it’s not the network problems.
-> I know it is not a firewall issue as redirecting incoming external messages to the old Exchange server is fine.
Maybe we could also turn off the firewall temporarily to see if the firewall block some connection.
-> To my mind this looks like there is something on these servers which is messing with http/https/smtp when communicating outside the local subnet.
If we think the http/https/smtp are related to this issues, maybe we could check if all ports about this service was opened.
And due to server 2 is an Exchange server, there might be some wrong with the Exchange services. We have the related Exchange forum with professional
to deal with this issue. If there are still some problems with Exchange server, maybe we can try to create a new thread about Exchange.
Best Regards,
Tina

Has anybody had an issue with System State Backups on a Dell PowerEdge R510 Server running Server 2008 R2?

Hi,
We have recently had issues running system state backups on our 2008 R2 Domain Controllers.  They are running on Dell PowerEdge R510 Physical Hardware. Whenever you initiate a system state backup, the Domain Controller becomes unresponsive
forcing us to physically reboot it.   Nothing in the Event logs or the Dell Open Management Hardware Software indicates issues with Phyiscal disks but we can always replicate the issue by starting the system state backup.
The system state backup is initialted as a batch file that runs as a scheduled task.   the commands run are as follows:
WBADMIN START SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP -backupTarget:[drive letter] -quiet
We have 4 Domain Controllers with identical disk configurations. When the DCs were setup I confirmed the system state backups were working but the issue started occuring sometime in Dec 2014. We are going to run the Dell Hardware Update Utility
to update the RAID, BIOS, Firmware updates but Has anyone experienced a similar issue that may have been triggerd by a Microsoft Patch?
Thanks,
Kevin C.
kconway@fnalgov

Hi Kevin,
This issue could be due to the Mountmgr.sys driver incorrectly maintains a global mutex. This behavior causes a deadlock situation in the Mountmgr.sys driver.
Please install the hotfix in the article below to resolve the issue:
A computer stops responding because of a deadlock situation in the Mountmgr.sys driver in running Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2614892
Best Regards,
Mandy
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Solaris 8 & Dell PowerEdge 6300

This message goes to Sun Microsystem.
I work for a Small School District which is 98% Windows NT.
For more than a year I've been looking for ways to introduce a UNIX/LINUX Solution into our network.
Finally, the best opportunity arrives: We need to set up a Spam Filter for our Mail system.
The target machine is a Dell PowerEdge 6300 Dual 550mhz CPU, gig of RAM, SCSI Raid.
The School was even good enough to send me to a Solaris Admin class just to help out with the integration.
Everything is good except Device Configuration won't recognize the AMI MegaRaid Ultra SCSI contoller.
Hence the install won't find the Hard Disks.
Dell Support was good, but the couldn't help, as their testing for Solaris is a bit on the slow side.
They said SUN would have to have the final say.
So after looking through the SUN website; at all the HCLs I come to the conclusion, (note this Spam filter project must go forward soon) That:
1. It will install if there is a Driver, (Dell didn't have it, AMI didn't, I don't, perhaps SUN does?)
2. It will install if I get a different Raid Controller( unlikely as the only reason for considering UNIX in the first place is cost, and I've already got a Microsoft solution lined up for less than a good conrtoller)
3. It's not going to work, because the hardware on this Server is just not supported.
And I call SUN. Now given that SUN and all the UNIX / Linux crowd are always griping about how they are better, and how they need a piece of the Microsoft pie, and thet fact that many many times I've gotten Microsoft to help out without charge, I would've thought that SUN might be at least remotely helpful given the chance they had someone willing to start pushing them in the door, or at least they might care about Education.
But No. No way, no how. Not even maybe or anything.
Thanks a lot guys for nothing.
You assholes don't deserve a market share, and until you start either making your shit work, or at least being more helpful to those who would push your products you'll never get anywhere.
Fuck SUN Microsystems You're a bunch of good for nothing Dickwits...
KSchwantz

How is it the fault of Sun Microsystems that AMI will not provide a Solaris x86 driver for their RAID controller? Do you think Sun would not jump for joy if hardware manufacturers would provide drivers for an operating system other than Windoze whatever?
Sun is stuck in a chicken/egg situation in this case. The hardware manufacturer will not provide a driver for such a low volume product as Solaris x86, and people cannot use Solaris x86 on much current hardware due to the lack of drivers. I imagine AMI has limited resources availble for driver developement, and wants to spend its development dollars on the platform that will generate the most revenue.
Of course Sun could pay AMI to produce such a driver, or for the specifications so they could write their own, but then the price of Solaris x86 would have to be increased to offset the increased production cost. This would seem to just push people to use linux or one of the BSD variants. Any ideas on how to resolve this conundrum?
Now that I'm done ranting, maybe this info will actually help you. AFAICT, megaraid is the name of a product line, not for a specific card. If you could provide more detailed info about the specific AMI HBA that you have, someone might be able to provide more detailed info to you. Some locations that appear to have some form of AMI megaraid drivers:
http://www.driverscollection.com/?H=MegaRAID%20Drivers&By=AMI&SS=Solaris%20x86
http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/
http://support.megaraid.com/support/download.cfm
HTH

Dell PowerEdge SC1420 with Ultra 320 scsi dirves

I am having a problem with installing Solaris 10 on the Dell PowerEdge SC1420 with Ultra 320 SCSI drives using PERC 320/DC Controller. The installation hangs at Configuring Devices and gives me some output messages:
NOTICE: MSG From Adapter: NMI ISR: NMI_BUS_INTERFACE_UNIT_ERROR
NOTICE: MSG From Adapter: NormPrioCommand was received with Fib StructType = 0xf
The notices keeps cycling.
Has anyone experience this issue?
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you,
Brian

Update:
I've got the box to install Solaris 10, however, I had to remove 2 sticks of memory. Originally, the box came with 4GB of memory but now I am down to 2GB. Don't know why this is the case but I am able to proceed with the installation without any error or notice messages. Can someone explain to me why this is the case? I will put the memory sticks back in and boot with the OS installed to see what happens and will update my results.
Thanks,
Brian

2.6 + DELL PowerEdge 4400 + AIC-7880 + AIC-7899 don't mix

Hi,
I have 10 DELL Poweredge 4400 servers to get Solaris 2.6 installed on asap.
They come with embedded aic-7880 for scsi cdrom and aic-7899 for raid support.
Well I can not get past the DCA diskettes to get Solaris installed. Seems to hang on the adp.bef driver. Also I think I may have an IRQ problem.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I know we should have bought Ultra II systems!!!
Best regards,
Christopher

Please see my post under the question about using Solaris 7 drivers under 2.6. Patch 107768-02 addresses this and has an image for a driver diskette so you can apply it during the DCA to allow the install. All covered in the readme.

All RAM is not shown by Dell PowerEdge 2650 redhat 4 linux system

Hi,
I have Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2650 server having 4 GB ram and i install Redhat 4 linux on it. But in the bios it shows 4 GB and 256 MB ram which i checked physically but in my OS it shows like.
[root@htss06 ~]# free -m
                   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           248        247          1          0          4         59
-/+ buffers/cache:        182         65
Swap:          511         10        501It's very strange i am not very good about servers. after googled i found
re-map the missing
ram from where your bios hole is located
but don't know how.
Thanks
umesh

[root@htss06 ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-5.ELhugemem)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.ELhugemem ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.ELhugemem.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-5.ELsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.ELsmp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS-up (2.6.9-5.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img
[root@htss06 ~]# uname -a
Linux htss06.htss.com 2.6.9-5.ELhugemem #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:38:36 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@htss06 ~]#

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