Here's a recap of what I've done recently: I tested Ubuntu 13.10, OpenSuSE 12.3, RHEL 6.4 and SLES 11 SP3.
Of those 4, the only two that booted successfully after installation are RHEL 6.4 and SLES 11. You do, however, have to point to the elilo.boot file by hand in the EFI boot menu to get SLES 11 to boot, but after that, it seems to work fine. We need to take into account that RHEL6.4 is using a heavily patched legacy grub from what I understand and SLES is using elilo. Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenSuSE 12.3 behaved very similarly in that the installer worked fine but once any attempt was made to boot the OS, we were not successful. Trying to boot Ubuntu brings us to a boot failure screen on the server and we are asked to press F1 to try again, F2 for system setup, etc. We do have an 'ubuntu' entry in the EFI boot menu and if we press "F1" while that entry is highlighted, it shows that we do have a path to grubx64.efi...however, it isn't working for some reason. In the case of OpenSuSE we are dropped to a grub prompt with grub complaining that ",gpt4" could not be found (although it seems to exist on the disk). So it looks like the operating systems that are using a more modern version of grub are having the most trouble with booting advanced format disks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065281 Title: Installer crashed when trying to partition 4k/4k sector hard disks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-poweredge/+bug/1065281/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
