[SOLVED] DELL PE2500 Installation

themattbeballin · 2010-12-31 23:19:41

I have recently taken Ubuntu Server off of my DELL PowerEdge 2500 (PE2500), and decided to put Arch Linux on it...

I have encountered a problem upon booting the install CD.

Everything goes all well and fine until it gets to INIT: version 2.86 booting, then it starts to hang, and eventually you'll see this error.

and then you get this error... http://i51.tinypic.com/123mliq.jpg

was much easier to put in a picture, than write every little bit down.

Now, I have a RAID5 running on this server, 3 36GB SCSI drives, coming out to a single volume ~73GB.

RAID controller is PERC 3/Di

Not sure if that has to do with the error, never dealt with server installations except for Ubuntu server on this machine...

Any suggestions?

EDIT: To add more information.

Last edited by themattbeballin (2011-01-02 05:49:29)

themattbeballin · 2011-01-02 01:29:20

Bump?

Really wondering how to get this working.... if it doesn't support RAID5 or something, I can always choose another distro. But really looking forward to having Arch on there.

dschrute · 2011-01-02 02:05:17

It looks like CD errors to me, unrelated to the PERC. I'd check the cd, the CDROM drive and cable.

themattbeballin · 2011-01-02 02:16:27

dschrute wrote:

It looks like CD errors to me, unrelated to the PERC. I'd check the cd, the CDROM drive and cable.

I bet you are right about the CD Drive, I did burn another disk when I tried Arch, because I wasn't sure if I had a bad burn or not...

The CD Drive has given me issues in the past, but I figured it was okay because it ran the ClearOS and Ubuntu Server installations fine...

Hope it's not shot though... Don't have another CD Drive for a PE that's SCSI I can replace it with. Lol

lifeafter2am · 2011-01-02 02:17:22

themattbeballin wrote:

dschrute wrote:
It looks like CD errors to me, unrelated to the PERC. I'd check the cd, the CDROM drive and cable.

I bet you are right about the CD Drive, I did burn another disk when I tried Arch, because I wasn't sure if I had a bad burn or not...
The CD Drive has given me issues in the past, but I figured it was okay because it ran the ClearOS and Ubuntu Server installations fine...
Hope it's not shot though... Don't have another CD Drive for a PE that's SCSI I can replace it with. Lol

Can the machine boot from USB?

themattbeballin · 2011-01-02 04:32:05

lifeafter2am wrote:

themattbeballin wrote:
dschrute wrote:
It looks like CD errors to me, unrelated to the PERC. I'd check the cd, the CDROM drive and cable.

I bet you are right about the CD Drive, I did burn another disk when I tried Arch, because I wasn't sure if I had a bad burn or not...
The CD Drive has given me issues in the past, but I figured it was okay because it ran the ClearOS and Ubuntu Server installations fine...
Hope it's not shot though... Don't have another CD Drive for a PE that's SCSI I can replace it with. Lol
Can the machine boot from USB?

no, it can not.. BUT.. I'm gonna run a PLOP disk to boot to my flash drive to install it... and see if it works.

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

lifeafter2am · 2011-01-02 04:37:08

themattbeballin wrote:

lifeafter2am wrote:
themattbeballin wrote:

I bet you are right about the CD Drive, I did burn another disk when I tried Arch, because I wasn't sure if I had a bad burn or not...
The CD Drive has given me issues in the past, but I figured it was okay because it ran the ClearOS and Ubuntu Server installations fine...
Hope it's not shot though... Don't have another CD Drive for a PE that's SCSI I can replace it with. Lol
Can the machine boot from USB?
no, it can not.. BUT.. I'm gonna run a PLOP disk to boot to my flash drive to install it... and see if it works.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

Let us know how it goes, hopefully it works!

themattbeballin · 2011-01-02 05:26:11

lifeafter2am wrote:

themattbeballin wrote:
lifeafter2am wrote:
Can the machine boot from USB?
no, it can not.. BUT.. I'm gonna run a PLOP disk to boot to my flash drive to install it... and see if it works.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html
Let us know how it goes, hopefully it works!

So far we are having success, I have gotten past where it hangs, will let you know it's solved and mark it as [SOLVED] if everything goes smoothly!

themattbeballin · 2011-01-02 05:49:08

themattbeballin wrote:

lifeafter2am wrote:
themattbeballin wrote:
no, it can not.. BUT.. I'm gonna run a PLOP disk to boot to my flash drive to install it... and see if it works.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html
Let us know how it goes, hopefully it works!

So far we are having success, I have gotten past where it hangs, will let you know it's solved and mark it as [SOLVED] if everything goes smoothly!

As a follow up, I have news.

After a long battle, I finally have a working server again running Arch!

Using the PLOP disk to my USB drive did the trick, guess my CD drive is defective.

But I'm sitting at a base install now.. should be good to go.

Thanks for the support!

Arch Linux

#1 2010-12-31 23:19:41

[SOLVED] DELL PE2500 Installation

#2 2011-01-02 01:29:20

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