Help: Linux Installation on PowerEdge T605

[Brian McGrew]

Wow, everything fails!  It sounds to me like you¹ve got a bad CD drive.  You
have to boot the system somehow and CD is the only way to do it unless
you¹ve got a netboot/tftp server up and running.  I hae a whole rack of
2950¹s and saw similar errors on one with a bad CD.  I ended up netbooting
it and replaced the drive later.

Do you have a Windows CD you can try???  I¹m a Fedora/CentOS user myself, so
I can¹t really speak of other distributions, but perhaps trying a Fedora
network install might get you somewhere.  Boot from CD#1 and at the boot
prompt type in Œlinux askmethod¹ and it¹ll prompt you for IP/Network info
and the location of the ISO images on an NFS server.

-brian


On 1/7/09 7:11 AM, "Mohan" <mocqccpct at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All!
> 
> Trying to install opensuse 11.1 on Dell PowerEdge T605, but installation fails
> with the following error:
> 
> Buffer I/O error on /dev/sr0, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on /dev/sr0, logical block 1
> Buffer I/O error on /dev/sr0, logical block 2
> Buffer I/O error on /dev/sr0, logical block 3
> .
> .
> .
> printk: 6 messages suppressed
> end_request: I/O error ...
> ISOFS: unable to read i-node block
> 
> I have burned different DVD's in both Linux(k3b) and Windows(XP/Vista) and
> nothing has worked so far. Though I have succeeded in installing with the same
> disk in my laptop! So, am very certain it has nothing to do with disk errors
> (bad md5sum, scratch, etc)
> 
> Distros tried so far: CentOS 5.2,
>                              Debian Etch 4.0rc6-amd,
>                              SLES 10.2 SP2,
>                              Debian Etchnhalf,
>                              Slackware 12.2,
>                              openSuSE 10.2,
>                              Fedora 9 and 10
> 
> Incidentally all the distros with kernel 2.6.27.xx fail spitting the same
> error (including Slack!) though Fedora 9 and openSuSE 10.2 too spits out the
> same. :-(
> 
> Few other kernel parameters that I have tried: doscsi, noacpi, acpi=off,
> insmod=ide-generic
> 
> I have also checked all the modules checked. It seems ok to me. CD-ROM loads
> with both scsi and ide drivers. RAID with megaraid_sas. I unloaded scsi-cdrom
> module, just in case RAID devices(using scsi modules) interfere with this.
> 
> Dell Live CD's (both CentOS and Fedora) fail pathetically and drops to the
> minimal shell before loading the modules :-(
> 
> Since all CD/DVD installation fail, I tried network install:
> 
> HTTP: mirrors have blocked the port
> FTP: Unable to transfer stage2.img
> NFS: Unable to transfer stage2.img!
> 
> Can anyone suggest me or enlighten me with new ideas for proceeding with the
> installation ?
> 
> PowerEdge T605: 2xAMD Opteron 2.3GHz(Quad Core)
>                             16 GB Memory
>                             2x1 TiB HDD
>                             Broadcom NetExtreme II
>                             PERC 6/i - RAID 1
> 
> Advance Thnx,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mohan P J
> University of Glasgow
> 
> PS: I'm basically a student with lots of interest in Linux and this happens to
> be the first server that am handling from the scratch and I damn need it asap,
> I need to submit my report :-(
> 
> 
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