Re: Redhat 9 XFS 1.2 ISO - wont boot on Dell Poweredge 2500

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I put v1 of the installer iso on  oss
It used the updated kernel rpm's Stefan Smietanowski built.
and I've backed out the umount/mount booty changes that didn't work.

It may or may not help your boot problem, obviously without the
hardware it will be hard to figure out the problem.


On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 08:03, darren.miller@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I take it you are using a DELL PERC?  which model?
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> I have a Dell Poweredge 2500 server that I wish to install Redhat 9 on 
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> XFS.
> I have previously installed Redhat 7.3 on it using the XFS boot CD without
> problems.
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> The problem that I am having is that when I boot off the CD I can see the
> line beginning with 'ISOLINUX' and then the screen clears and the CDROM
> drive looks like it is reading lots of data. I have left this for an hour
> but nothing appears on the screen.
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> If I boot the XFS CD on a different machine it works.
> If I boot the original Redhat 9 CD1 on the poweredge 2500 it works.
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> Any idea how I can get it to work?
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> I Have 3 SCSI drives (18GB) in the system and I wish to install so that
> there are 3 partitions mirrored with the 3rd drive as a hot spare.
> 1st partition as the main OS with 4GB
> 2nd partition as a 1GB swap mirror.
> 3rd partition as a 13GB mirror for data.
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> Thanks
> Gareth
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