Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 11:58 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: >    The non-determinism in which identifiers are shown might be a bug in the >    installer, or it might be caused by failure of ID commands to the >    drives. > >    I think most of the problems you're still having must be caused

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 00:49 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > > >    I had big issues with mptsas and 3.16 in jessie, so I am still using > >    3.2.0-4-rt-amd64 > > > > Will jessie run with 3.2.0-4-rt-amd64? If so, where do I get it and how do > > I install it on a fresh

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

I had big issues with mptsas and 3.16 in jessie, so I am still using 3.2.0-4-rt-amd64 Will jessie run with 3.2.0-4-rt-amd64? If so, where do I get it and how do I install it on a fresh jessie install that wasn't dist-upgraded from wheezy? Jeff (http://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi)

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

The non-determinism in which identifiers are shown might be a bug in the installer, or it might be caused by failure of ID commands to the drives. I think most of the problems you're still having must be caused by a bug in the RAID driver, mpt2sas (or its firmware, if that's not

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 08:07 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: [...] > Whenever I observe any of the behavior reported in this email, it is > almost always associated with dmesg reporting the same error on the same > sector 2056 (sometimes 2058 or 2062). Given the dozens of attempted >

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

I'd like to thank everyone for helping out. Here is an update on installing jessie on R815s. I succeeded in installing on three of my four R815s. But I am holding off on the last because it is my file server and there are still issues. Please read on. I don't believe that the problem is solved

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 06:22:37PM -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: >Please note that bootint with rootdelay=20 does not solve the problem. It only >masks it. > > 1. If I attempt a fresh USB install of jessie, when md0 is correctly built >before the install, the process of doing the fresh

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Please note that bootint with rootdelay=20 does not solve the problem. It only masks it. 1. If I attempt a fresh USB install of jessie, when md0 is correctly built before the install, the process of doing the fresh install breaks md0. When it gets to grub install, components of md0 are

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

deloptes wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > >> The error would be useful to know. Most likely one or more of them >> dropped out of the array for some reason and you're booting off of one >> which has a lower event count and it won't assemble. >> >> But it could be any number of things. >> >> The

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Unless you are sharing the drive with windows I would highly recommend > avoiding that, and doing the software raid purely in linux.  It is much > simpler and much better supported. Hi, this is not a critical machine. I let debian configure the raid at installation

RE: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Dell Customer Communication >>Are you certain that there isn't a PERC H700 in this machine? [Sort of >>odd that mpt2sas is triggering a state error in your screenshot if > there >>actually isn't one.] >> >> There could be one. But I probably don't use it. I use

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

>Are you certain that there isn't a PERC H700 in this machine? [Sort of >odd that mpt2sas is triggering a state error in your screenshot if there >actually isn't one.] > > There could be one. But I probably don't use it. I use software RAID. Dell > wouldn't sell an

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

I conjecture that there may be two to five separate issues. 1. Setting up md0 upon boot takes a long time. rootdelay=20 fixes this. 2. There is a problem writing to disk. Perhaps just writing to certain blocks. Because even when the machine boots with rootdelay=20, and md0 has all 6

RE: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

>Are you certain that there isn't a PERC H700 in this machine? [Sort of >odd that mpt2sas is triggering a state error in your screenshot if there >actually isn't one.] > > There could be one. But I probably don't use it. I use software RAID. Dell > wouldn't sell an R815 without an OS.

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

> and attempted > >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdc1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sde1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdf1 > > but these all failed.

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > and attempted > >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdc1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sde1 >mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdf1 > > but these

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:24:51PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Sorry previous went out incomplete, because of some shortcut I pressed > wrongly > > Here is what I found > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 22 14:16 > ata-WDC_WD800GD-75FLC3_WD-WMAKE1962410 -> ../../sda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Are you certain that there isn't a PERC H700 in this machine? [Sort of odd that mpt2sas is triggering a state error in your screenshot if there actually isn't one.] There could be one. But I probably don't use it. I use software RAID. Dell wouldn't sell an R815 without an OS. I think I

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > http://upplysingaoflun.ecn.purdue.edu/~qobi/20160619_140357.jpg Are you certain that there isn't a PERC H700 in this machine? [Sort of odd that mpt2sas is triggering a state error in your screenshot if there actually isn't one.] > I don't

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Thanks for your help. > Here is a screen picture. Could you upload this to an image paste site or send it along (or use a serial console to get it as text?) http://upplysingaoflun.ecn.purdue.edu/~qobi/20160619_140357.jpg (The other screen picture of a machine (not an R815) that does

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Don Armstrong wrote: > The error would be useful to know. Most likely one or more of them > dropped out of the array for some reason and you're booting off of one > which has a lower event count and it won't assemble. > > But it could be any number of things. > > The output of mdadm --examine

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > Please note that all of the above systems have / as md0 RAID1. The fresh > install of jessie was successfull on all but the R815s. > >> Then it fails to

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

My posting has not appeared on debian-{boot,kernel,user}. I think it is because of the attachments. I have removed them. I'll send the screen images to people individually if they request them. --- I am cross posting this

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

deloptes: > > Upgrade usually is done by > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade No. You upgrade to a new stable release by reading and following the release notes. J. -- I am heading for the loony bin. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon 20 Jun 2016 at 20:53:55 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 20 Jun 2016 at 13:06:30 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:43:35 +0200 > >> Sven Hartge wrote: > >> > >> > deloptes wrote: > >> > > Jeffrey Mark

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jun 2016 at 13:06:30 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:43:35 +0200 >> Sven Hartge wrote: >> >> > deloptes wrote: >> > > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: >> > >> > >> I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > 2. I do a fresh install of wheezy from a USB dongle. It boots wheezy just > fine. > I do nothing but > > nano /etc/apt/sources.list > (change all instances of wheezy to jessie, save, and exit) > apt-get update >

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:39:34 +0100 Brian wrote: > > > > why is an upgrade not an option? > > > > > > Upgrade to what? He wants to install Jessie, you can't get a newer > > > stable Debian than that. > > > > I guess he meant a dist-upgrade from an installed wheezy to

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon 20 Jun 2016 at 13:06:30 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:43:35 +0200 > Sven Hartge wrote: > > > deloptes wrote: > > > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > > > > >> I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has >

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:43:35 +0200 Sven Hartge wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > > >> I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has > >> been running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably >

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

deloptes wrote: > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: >> I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has >> been running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably >> for years before that. But no matter what I try it won't install or >> boot. > why

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has been > running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably for years > before that. But no matter what I try it won't install or boot. > why is an upgrade not an option?

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

Hi Jeffrey, On 20/06/16 06:49, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has been > running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably for years > before that. But no matter what I try it won't install or boot. > > I have tried two

jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has been running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably for years before that. But no matter what I try it won't install or boot. I have tried two ways. 1. I attempt a fresh install from a USB dongle. It gets all

Re: Jessie won't install

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: Jessie (last testing version) does not want to install in a VM. It just get stucked If it regards Jessie, probably debian-testing [1] is a better place where

Re: Jessie won't install

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:19:56AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: Jessie (last testing version) does not want to install in a VM. It just get stucked If it

Jessie won't install

Hi, Jessie (last testing version) does not want to install in a VM. It just get stucked at select and install software with installation failed you can skip it and choose something else if you want. Anybody had the same issue and solved it ? Thank you, -- “One original thought is worth a

Re: Jessie won't install

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: Jessie (last testing version) does not want to install in a VM. It just get stucked If it regards Jessie, probably debian-testing [1] is a better place where to post it. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/ -- To