Hello everyone,
We just received a brand new server, and I just spent several hours
trying to install OpenSuse on it, but couldn't get it to. The
Hardware is a Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy RX330 S1 (product page here
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/products/standard_servers/rack/
primergy_rx330s1.html ), and I tried both the 10.3, and then the 10.2
net install discs. I even tried the 10.3 Gnome install CD, just to be
sure. (Note: all 3 are the x86_64 flavors)
Both 10.3 discs didn't even get me to any menu or anything: I would
get grub (is it grub?), and go to the normal installation. It then
tries to load a bunch of modules (first was pata_serverworks, which
crashed and I subsequently had to deactivate it with brokenmodules),
eventually getting to the NICs, and crashes after that. Even
disabling the module it tries to load then (tg3) doesn't help, it
does nothing for a few seconds (cursor blinks), and then just
reboots. I tried disabling the NICs in the BIOS (all of them, even
the management thing), but it still tries to load the module.
I had a little more luck with the 10.2 disc, as I could get to the
"installation or other stuff" menu (can't remember what exactly is in
there) without the need to disable or block any modules, and I can
start the http installation, it downloads the image for the graphical
installation, it even gets there, probes the mouse (little window
hovering), the window disappears, the "menu" on the left hand
appears, and the thing crashes. No error, no nothing which could give
me any information about what causes the problem.
I then tried different other discs I had lying around: a minimal
Gentoo x86, a Gentoo LiveCD x86_64, a Damn Small Linux x86, but none
worked as expected. The Gentoo discs fail while trying to mount /dev/
hda (the optical drive), and the DSL doesn't manage to start an X,
and defaults to the CLI Interface, but I don't get networking or
anything, even USB is broken somehow (tried to copy the ouput from
lspci).
Any suggestions what I could try from here on? Or this there someone
out there with the same server who managed to get _any_ GNU/Linux
distribution on it?
Thanks in advance,
Felix Schäfer--
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