Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-18 Thread ~Stack~
On 02/17/2017 09:11 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > Hi, there, we told you many things, some hopefully helpful, but you never > told us what machine you have, and we did ask (twice). > > Please, tell us what motherboard you have (from dmidecode) and > what CPU you have (from /proc/cpuinfo).

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 05:43:50PM -0600, ~Stack~ wrote: > > Thank you all very much for your help. > Hi, there, we told you many things, some hopefully helpful, but you never told us what machine you have, and we did ask (twice). Please, tell us what motherboard you have (from dmidecode) and

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, Thank you all very much for your help. I wasn't in a position to reply earlier, but I was watching the updates. The EDD, I think, was a red herring. Turning it off just meant it locked the screen without anything being printed at all. I installed to a different hard drive and got the

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:49:17AM -0600, Graham Allan wrote: > > I think that's a linux message. > Confirmed. It is the linux kernel sources file arch/x86/boot/edd.c After printing "Probing EDD", it issues BIOS int13 calls getting some kind of disk information. Good place to be stuck with

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread Graham Allan
I think that's a linux message. I've seen this before when output starts getting redirected to the serial port (or ipmi/iDRAC/iLO virtual serial port). Maybe check if there is some type of console redirection set up in the BIOS? It seems to me that when redirection is set up, the BIOS itself

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:07:55PM -0600, ~Stack~ wrote: > I have a bunch of new SuperMicro servers. Installed 7.3 on it. Reboot and it > hangs at: > "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...ok" That's a BIOS message, not a linux or grub message, yes? (I do not see any EDD messages in the linux log

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread Mark Stodola
On 02/16/2017 10:07 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: Greetings, I'm going to keep this "short" because I've just had 6hrs of things I've tried that didn't work. It would take to long to list them all. :-) I have a bunch of new SuperMicro servers. Installed 7.3 on it. Reboot and it hangs at: "Probing EDD

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread David Sommerseth
On 17/02/17 12:36, ~Stack~ wrote: > Greetings, > On 02/17/2017 04:37 AM, Bluejay Adametz wrote: >>> I have a bunch of new SuperMicro servers. Installed 7.3 on it. Reboot >>> and it hangs at: >>> "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...ok" >> >> Did you get rid of the "quiet" option on the kernel line?

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, On 02/17/2017 04:37 AM, Bluejay Adametz wrote: >> I have a bunch of new SuperMicro servers. Installed 7.3 on it. Reboot >> and it hangs at: >> "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...ok" > > Did you get rid of the "quiet" option on the kernel line? If not, do > so, so you're sure to get

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> I have a bunch of new SuperMicro servers. Installed 7.3 on it. Reboot > and it hangs at: > "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...ok" Did you get rid of the "quiet" option on the kernel line? If not, do so, so you're sure to get all the kernel messages. It might not be hanging where you think it

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-16 Thread Paul Myers
Stack Not sure this will help but heres my 10 pence worth EDD being related to Disk drives this makes me wonder if the correct firmware is being used but it did somehow eventually get around the issue eventually - any way you can try say a different hard disk? Can you boot a live disk on the

Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-16 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, I'm going to keep this "short" because I've just had 6hrs of things I've tried that didn't work. It would take to long to list them all. :-) I have a bunch of new SuperMicro servers. Installed 7.3 on it. Reboot and it hangs at: "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...ok" And by hangs, I