T605

[Kirchner, Kenneth W CTR USA NETCOM/9TH SC A]

You might also check Dell's support site for a firmware upgrade for your
CD/DVD drive.  I was surprised to see one available for my DVD-ROM drive
when I was doing some updates last week.  It's a simple .exe run from a
boot-floppy usually.

If there is one available, it should show up on the drivers page when
you enter your service tag.  Just make sure you pick the right model,
there's usually a few different CD drives available for each type of
server. The model and current firmware revision usually show up in the
dmesg info during linux boot.

I hope that fixes it for you.

Ken Kirchner, Contractor
Network Analyst, STG

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Eric Whiting
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:35 AM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: T605

Looks like a problem with sr0 -- the CDROM drive. (not the DVD/CD media)
Can you try a different CD/DVD drive or better yet a USB stick or
PXEBOOT? Your network install attempt looks like a firewall or network
config (missing route) maybe caused the install to fail.


linux-poweredge-request at dell.com wrote:
>
> Subject:
> RE: Help: Linux Installation on PowerEdge T605
> From:
> <Andreas_Fuchs at Dell.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:24:16 +0100
> To:
> <mocqccpct at gmail.com>, <linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com>
>
> To:
> <mocqccpct at gmail.com>, <linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com>
>
>
> Run a memory test on the T605, strange errors like this often are 
> caused by faulty memory.
>
>  
>
> *From:* linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] *On Behalf Of *Mohan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:11 PM
> *To:* linux-poweredge-Lists
> *Subject:* Help: Linux Installation on PowerEdge T605
>
>  
>
> 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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