Fedora + DL 380 G3

[Mario Camaj]

Can't get Fedora Core 3 to work.
FreeBSD did boot.

As I am new to Linux I wanted to use one with a graphical Interface

Here are the systems configs. that I have.
HP. HP Proliant DL 380
Bois Version 4.09 P29-09/15/2004,

Intel Xeon Processer 2.80 GHz 512 Kb

Slot 0 Compaq Array 5i Controller 64mb v2.xx <-- cant remember off the top of my head.



HP NC7781 G Gigabit Server Adapter
Standard Boot Order
IPL:1 Floppy Order
IPL:2 CD-ROM
IPL:3 Hard Drive C:/
IPL:4 PCI Embedded HP NC7781 Gigabit Server
Adapter
Boot Controller Order
CTLR:1 PCI Embedded HP Smart Array 5i Controller
CTLR:2 PCI Embedded HP Intergrated PCI IDE
CONTROLLER

SYSTEM OPTIONS
OS SELECTED
LINUX.

I have 4 hard Drives. They are Ultra 3 18.2GB
Raid 5. 15k.
What else do you need.

I am a bit new to this. always ran linux on
desktops.

where do I set it up to boot from RAID.

When I am instiall core three it seems to see the
raid controller.

Thank for all the help

[Stuart Browne]

The interface boot order is configured in the BIOS (as you've shown there, it's in the right order).

Are you saying you've installed the OS onto the container, but when it reboots afterwards, it doesn't boot off the container?

This wouldn't be the first time I've heard this with regards to FC3. There certainly were a number of bugs regarding this with FC2, a number of which were fixed, but not all.

All that being said, it sounds like you need to manually fix the Grub installation after installing the OS.

Use the boot CD's to go into Rescue mode, re-do the grub installation (/sbin/grub-install, it's just a shell script) then verify the values in /boot/grub/grub.conf (should be symlinked to /etc/grub.conf for convenience).

Also go into 'fdisk', and make sure the partition you installed the OS to is active.

Then come back and tell us what error messages it comes up with on the console when you try to boot it.

[Chakravarthi]

hi,

check the following link

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/installnotes-dl.html

[Steven E. Protter]

You have of course used the servers setup disk to prepare the disk into a valid, bootable configuration prior to the OS install?

A must with HP Intel servers.

SEP

[Mario Camaj]

Steven E Protter
The server is all setup right and ready to go.
In fact I was able to successfully install both
Win2003 Enterprise server and FreeBSD 5.3.
Although I had some interesting problems with
Xorg, and Free86. as the Xwindows server.

Will post those fixes later.

But FreeBSD worked for a short time.
Problem with it is that my goal is to run Hula,
and I was having trouble with that installation.
So I was told to try Fedora.

Chakravarthi
The links are not really helpful because I am not getting any errors.
Plus I am not running Redhat 8 or enterprise 2.
I am not sure how similar they are to Fedora.
This would be Redhat 12 I believe.

My problem is that its just hang at boot.
With nothing on the screen but boot hard disk.

Stuart Browne
I will try and fix the installation of Grub and see if
I can get that to fix the problem and report any error messages I get.
Which I am sure I will get.

Thanks for all the help.
If anyone is familiar with grub, and can point me in the right direction,
Much would be appreciated.

Thx/ Mario---

[Chakravarthi]

hi,
i found the following link with similar problem

hope this helps

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106448

[Huc_1]

On a running linux

#info grub
would tell you all about it, but as you may not have a running linux around try

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-commands.html

J-P Huc

[Huc_1]

Me again, sorry about, but just found this one it seems more helpfull then previous

J-P Huc

[Huc_1]

Zero point for this pls

here is the advertized link

http://www.mirror5.com/software/grub/grub.html

J-P Huc

[Huc_1]

This one is also pretty usefull

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue64/kohli.html

J-P Huc

[W Sanders_1]

You don't really provide enough information to debug the problem - does it boot from CDROM and can you complete the installation, and then it will not boot from disk? Or does it hang when booting off the CDORM?

If you have a single CPU box that GRUB should not be an issue. You should be booting with the standard kernel, and should be presented with the choice of only one kernel, unless one of the above links has information about special kernel params being required for a xeon, like "noapic" or something like that. Don't discount the "Linus for Proliant" link since some of that hardware may behave the same way under Fedora.

My other guess is that you are trying to install on an unrecognized RAID configuration. FC3 may not support the 5i. Can you configure the 5i as JBOD and install on a single disk?

[W Sanders_1]

Aha - found this link:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:c2MSyL0uBRwJ:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-December/msg00434.html+fedora+Compaq+SmartArray+5i&hl=en&client=firefox-a

"Having recently completed beating my head against the wall to get FC3
installed and running on a Proliant DL360 G2 ... have you set the system type
to "Linux"? Untill I realized that this needed to be done, it was a lot of
pain.

If the Dl380 is anything like the DL360 G2, you need to hit F9 during the
initial stuff the system goes through (it is toward the end), this will bring
up configuration of the BIOS stuff where you can select system type. I found
that it needed to be set BEFORE you did the install. Why the Compaq/HP
Proliant needs to know the system type it will be running is a puzzle to me"

[W Sanders_1]

Better link format:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-December/msg00434.html

[Mario Camaj]

W Sanders
thanks for the help agian. its been great to get all these post.
I feel like I am getting closer.

but if you read the orginal post I did set it to Lunix.


no the system does not reboot at all. If I put in the Core 3 boot disk it just start the install from scrach
I can not complete the installation or boot in anyway.

[Stuart Browne]

So after installation, it ejects the CD, and comes up saying "NO OS" or something similar?

As I said, try using the first FC3 CD to boot into rescue mode (it'll have help screens about it) and re-installing Grub using the 'grub-install' command.

[dan dobbs]

Re-install, using LILO as the boot loader. I had the same problem installing Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1v4 on my DL380's.

To make sure we're talking about the same thing, let me elaborate: I could install linux, it would see my disks, life was great, but after the initial reboot, it could not find my raid array. I tore my hair out trying different disk configs and drivers, and then I tried (on a whim) changing the boot loader to LILO instead of GRUB (the default). Shazam! It worked!

Hope this helps you out.

-dd

[Mario Camaj]

dan dobbs

Thanks for the post.
I think that we had the exact Problem.
However. Fedora Three only comes with one choose of loader. and thats Grub. Was that the case for you.
I will try and load LILO off the web and see if that helps.

Stuart Browne
I tried to us Grub install, but I dont think that was the problem as it did not fix my issue.
Thanks for the post.

[Mogens Kjaer]

You can enable lilo during the installation
of Fedora 3 by booting the installation
with:

linux lilo

Mogens