Fedora Core 10 - PowerEdge 1950 III

[Geoffrey Rekier]

I had similar problem but I changed my mind and installed CentOS  
instead. It went really fine and I read on the wiki that it is  
unofficially supported. So I am curious about your choice of Fedora.  
Any particular reason?


On 18 Dec 2008, at 17:30, <Patrick_Boyd at dell.com>  
<Patrick_Boyd at dell.com> wrote:

> There is a bug in Fedora 10 that has to do with asynchronous  
> discovery of SCSI devices. You need to add the scsi_wait_scan module  
> to your initrd. See this bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473305
>
>
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> ] On Behalf Of Tim Richter
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:22 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Fedora Core 10 - PowerEdge 1950 III
>
> Hello.
>
> I am attempting to install Fedora Core 10 on a new Dell PowerEdge  
> 1950 III with embedded Perc 6/I Raid 1.  The installation process  
> works great.  The installation program recognizes the Dell Per 6/1  
> Raid, creates its partitions, and formats with no problem.  The  
> installation proceeds installing Fedora, and then it reboots.
>
> Upon reboot, I get the following:
>
> Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while…
> Volume group “VolGroup00” not found
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
> Mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: No such file or  
> directory
> Scsi 2:0:32:0: Enclosure DP BACKPLANE 1.05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> Scsi: 2:2:0:0: Direct-Access DELL PERC 6/I 1.21 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> Scsi 2:0:32:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 13
> Sd 2:2:0:0: [sda] 285474816 512-byte hardware sectors (146163 MB)
> Sd 2:2:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> Sd 2:2:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled,  
> supports DPO and FUA
> Sd 2:2:0:0: [sda] 285474816 512-byte hardware sectors (146163 MB)
> Sd 2:2:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> Sd 2:2:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled,  
> supports DPO and FUA
>       Sda: dsa1 dsa2
> Sd 2:2:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> Sd 2:2:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
>
>
> Fedora never loads.  I have tried reinstalling, but the same results  
> accurred.  If anyone has advice to offer, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tim
>
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Best Regards

Geoffrey

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