SLES 10 on bl25p would not install

[M.Lazauskas]

Good day,

Recently I tried to install SLES10 on hp bl25p (product id 399598-B21) with connected hp USB keyboard and HP USB DVD drive (HP DVD 840).

Failure description:
The install seems to lock up after installation boot screen (where it is possible to boot from hard drive, install, install - acpi disabled, etc) no matter what option I choose; I get ~10 min blank screen with responding keyboard (num lock, alt+ctl+del) and then when it shows blue screen with SLES logo it locks up - keyboard does not work, no cd activity.

Trying to boot in text mode I still get ~10 min blank screen but instead of logo screen I get kernel booting messages and it seems to lock up when "Detecting USB devices ...". Then I have to shutdown server by holding power button.

Same happens when I use iLO with USB drive attached or mounted virtual media (no keyboard attached).

Hardware used:
HP BL25p - bios: A02 03/01/2006
HP DVD 840 (USB)
HP Keyboard (USB)

Media:
SLES 10 64bit cd 1 (image MD5 checksum passed)



Thank You in advance

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Just for grins, try another distribution or OS. You may have a hardware problem.

SEP

[M.Lazauskas]

Hi,

I did not mention but same happens on 2 bl25p nodes.

On the same chasis there are 4 nodes up and running win2003 server.

Tried PCBSD live cd and it works. My colegue here tried red-hat as and fedora core 5 with no luck.

Thanks.

[sandeep_raman]

Hello M.Lazauskas,

Few related Customer Advisory,

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=PSD_EU040813_CW01
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=PSD_CN0211W
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/bl25p-drivers-cert.html#a

Or perhaps the Usb drivers are not loaded.
See if there's an option to load usb driver/module while installation.

PS: Not too sure if 64-bit would work on this blade.

SRH

[Ilay_1]

no chance that SLES 10 correctly recognize your harddisk(because of controller driver is not in kernel) and it hung when installation try to write files you need driver disk