Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> I know you mention several things but just to be clear...  You did try > an install using nothing more than /dev/sda as the root partition with > everything all in one partition?  No software raid.  No lvm.  That > would be the simplest case.  If that fails what is on the screen at > that time?

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Davies
Eero Volotinen wrote: > I had similar problems with R410. I think problem lies in way DRAC > card is recognized at boot and it's virtual drives. I too have had problems in this area on DELL systems with a DRAC. Without reference to my notes I'm relying on memory, but the bottom line is that durin

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
mat brown wrote: > No matter what combination of LVM, s/w RAID, no s/w RAID, no LVM or > whatever I use, GRUB refuses to boot the installed system. > ... > the problem, installing with no RAID/LVM should work - which it > doesn't. I know you mention several things but just to be clear... You did

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> > Of course you can unplug the drac.. eh :) > As far as I can tell (lspci, lsusb, dmesg|grep drac) there's no drac installed. the KVM access I have is through the hosting provider's own system - again, as far as I can tell. I know Dell don't officially support debian, but even so. -- To UNS

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/1/5 mat brown : >> >> try to install withhttp://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/(unofficial debian installer) >> > > I did consider that, but seeing as I've installed both Lenny and > Squeeze (not to mention Ubuntu LTS) OK, I'm not sure that it will > help:  it's not actually installing that's the problem

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> > try to install withhttp://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/(unofficial debian installer) > I did consider that, but seeing as I've installed both Lenny and Squeeze (not to mention Ubuntu LTS) OK, I'm not sure that it will help: it's not actually installing that's the problem. It's booting the system afte

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/1/4 mat brown : > OK, this is a fun one.  I recently took delivery of a new server, a > Dell Poweredge R310 try to install with http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (unofficial debian installer) -- Eero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
OK, this is a fun one. I recently took delivery of a new server, a Dell Poweredge R310 Intel Xeon X3440 quad core, 8GB RAM, etc. Storage is four 500GB drives, hardware RAID1 so shows up as two 500GB drives to the system. H/W controller is SAS1068e, Broadcom NIC, everything else is Intel chips. I