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