Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:47:40AM +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote: The fix is to use options - rescan devices in the installer. After that, when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd drive. I recon the problem occurs because of confusion between the physical cd drive and the virtual ditto. Hi Palle, This absolutely does the trick! Thanks much, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
The fix is to use options - rescan devices in the installer. After that, when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd drive. I recon the problem occurs because of confusion between the physical cd drive and the virtual ditto. Cheers, Palle --On 22 april 2010 21.19.43 +0200 Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install process finishes formatting then I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) and installation can't proceed. Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the CD/DVD since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive. I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result. Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result :-( So here are my questions: o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when installation is done via the virtual CD/DVD-drive? o) Any cure against this? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install process finishes formatting then I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) and installation can't proceed. Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the CD/DVD since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive. I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result. Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result :-( So here are my questions: o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when installation is done via the virtual CD/DVD-drive? o) Any cure against this? Try a re-scan of the devices from the options menu. If that doesn't help, try connecting to an ISO image in iLO instead of an optical device. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:27:11AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Try a re-scan of the devices from the options menu. If that doesn't help, try connecting to an ISO image in iLO instead of an optical device. Hi Doug, This is exactly what I did in the first playe, i.e. mounting an ISO-Image as a iLO virtual CD/DVD then starting the installation off this .ISO. -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I understand. Just curious: Why can the machine boot off the CD/DVD then during installation goes south - shouldn't it be either I recognize this drive or I don't recognize this drive? The acd0 is an ATAPI/IDE device. Here's what I'd try. Two options... 1) Boot the livefs ISO and do a ftp/http install Thanks much for the hint. I think I'm going this way since the installation runs perfectly to right after formatting the partitions on the HD is done. Best regards, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On 04/23/2010 06:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: ... Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. Oops, now I understand. Just curious: Why can the machine boot off the CD/DVD then during installation goes south - shouldn't it be either I recognize this drive or I don't recognize this drive? During boot, the loader uses the bios-supplied routines to load the kernel, modules, and md root. One would hope the bios knows how to communicate with its hardware. By the time sysinstall is running (from the preloaded memory disk), the kernel has mapped all the hardware it knows, and no longer utilizes the bios routines for I/O. Thus, if FreeBSD knows not of the hardware connecting the CD drive, it will not be able to present it as an option. Fortunately, once you get this far, you need not actually use the CD to install; network installation works quite well. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net cyber...@cyberleo.net Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install process finishes formatting then I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) and installation can't proceed. Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the CD/DVD since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive. I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result. Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result :-( So here are my questions: o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when installation is done via the virtual CD/DVD-drive? o) Any cure against this? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist
On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual CD/DVD of the iLO management. The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install process finishes formatting then I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) and installation can't proceed. Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the CD/DVD since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive. I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result. Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result :-( So here are my questions: o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when installation is done via the virtual CD/DVD-drive? o) Any cure against this? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald I'm a new hire to HP (not supporting ProLiants), but BSD is not a supported OS. That's completely beside the point because I want to play with proliants myself and see what I can get working. Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management cards are still unknown. The acd0 is an ATAPI/IDE device. Here's what I'd try. Two options... 1) Boot the livefs ISO and do a ftp/http install 2) Download Martin Matuška's mfsbsd and boot it. Connect by SSH and perform either a cd-rom install with the install iso mounted or via ftp/http install. I would anxiously try anything if anybody were to give me access to a proliant. dmesg and model numbers with bios, bmc versions, etc would be greatly appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
