ViciBox 3.1.7 on Dell R410 Boot Problem

[marcoe]

Hi,

I'm installing Vicibox 3.1.7 on a Dell R410, with a RAID controller.

Everything goes well until the end of os-install script. After it boots up, I get this:

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doing fast boot
FATAL: Module processor not found.
FATAL: Module thermal not found.
FATAL: Module fan not found.
Creating device nodes with udev
Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-......
Id not find /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-....
Want me to fall back to /dev/sda2? (Y/n)


I get no keyboard action at this time, so can't type Y ou N

I hope someone had this problem ou somenthing like this to give me an idea on what to do.

[williamconley]

1) look at the previous notes regarding vicibox redux and some startup issues after os-install (especially on raid).

2) consider trying goautodial, even if just to see if it works.

[iulianm]

I have installed vicibox 3.0.8 on R410 with PERC H200 controller ( raid1 )

** Only the 64 bit version worked

[marcoe]

Ok thanks for the tips. I had previosly looked at some reports here of some related situation, but my thougth was to find something more specific, because all the solutions sounded like work-arounds: install other OS CD and install vicidial stuff, or remove the RAID Card and use the onboard controller. Not that they are not an option, but if we can find a way to fix them, that would be better.

Well, I followed kumba's advice on removing Grub, listed on the link that william posted above, and during the os-install I got some wierd messages, that I didn't notice before, but at the end of the script, when writing grub, I got an error.

As I'm no Linux Guru, my guess the 2 messages bellow are related, I didn't know there was a limit of 128 GB on the boot partition.

My partitions are divided like this:

sda1 = swap 4Gb
sda2 = / ext3 1.81 TB


This message shows up on the summary screen, before you confirm the install.

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Booting
The bootloader is installed on a partition that does not lie entirely below 128 GB. The system might not boot.       



This one shows up after the installation script starts to write boot information.

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GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,0) (hd0,0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found
grub> quit


My next options here are, create a smaller partition for / and boot information. (which I'm doing right now)
And if this don't work, use an older version 3.0.8 64bits as iulianm recommended.

Plan B is to tell the client to buy other cheaper server that would work too and use this Dell server to something else, like print server... lol... But if I can make this work, it would be great to not go down that road.

Any advices from the linux gurus out there ?

thanks

[iulianm]

Ok . But did you tried with 3.1.7 64 bit?

I have tried with 3.0.8 32 bit and was not working ... only 64 bit was working for me. That was the latests in that moment .

[Michael_N]

what raidcontroller are you using?

[marcoe]

Hi again,

It seems that this problem I'm having is much deeper than simply Vicibox ISO compilation.

I googled "grub r410" and got a lot of forums with people relating the same problem in a variety of linux distros.

This one solved the issue on Ubuntu, and I'm gonna try the same.
http://stoilis.wordpress.com/2009/11/20 ... dell-r410/

As it needs physical access to the server, it will take a little while for me.

@iulianm: yes, 64bit since the beginning. if the above fails I'll try 3.0.8 64bit

@Michael_N: I actually don't know, I don't have phisical access to it. But I asked my client for the details on the server, no answer yet. I'm guessing it is a PERC H700.

thanks

[Kumba]

Wow. 35-seconds. That is amazing.