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02-08-2017 10:31 AM
02-08-2017 10:31 AM
RHEL 6.8 on DL380 Gen 9
Looking for some advice regarding setting up RHEL on DL Gen 9. My first attempt was successful at install but failed to boot. This lead me to many a google result related to UEFI/Legacy BIOS mode, /boot, drivers for the p440ar Smart Array controller and a number of other possible causes.
Red Hat Premium support isn't doing anything but searching their knowledgebase and sending me links to those articles ( I've already done all that ).
Hopefully someone on these boards has successfully gotten RHEL to run on the DL380 Gen 9 and can describe their setup.
Thanks,
-KLB
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02-08-2017 11:41 AM
02-08-2017 11:41 AM
Re: RHEL 6.8 on DL380 Gen 9
More info on my situation...
While operating in Legacy BIOS mode, I was able to build out a logical drive using the smart array controller ( p440ar ) like so...
o build an raid 1 array with 2 disks and 1 hot spare.
o build a primary ( normal non-LVM ) partition called /boot at 250MB on the logical drive
o use the remaining space to create an LVM PV
o create a VG over top of that PV
o build out the necessaray LVs for / /home /var /tmp and swap space.
o boot the machine from USB stick, load the installer and proceed to install RHEL 6.8 without issues
Upon boot, the system hangs on "Attempting boot from hard drive (C: )" at the top of the screen forever ( 24 hours ).
I'm interested to know the following from someone out there running RHEL 6 on DL380 Gen 9:
UEFI mode or Legacy Mode? How did you configure /boot ( where )? Any other changes to BIOS settings? If in Legacy mode, how did you get the SATA mode to RAID ( on mine it is greyed out and stuck on AHCI )? In general what is the trick to get the boot loader to see the array LUN at boot time?
Thanks,
-klb
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02-08-2017 12:07 PM
02-08-2017 12:07 PM
Re: RHEL 6.8 on DL380 Gen 9
Works fine in both UEFI and Legacy BIOS modes. When in Legay mode you need to specify the boot drive/LUN in the array configuration utility. Not required for UEFI