On 2015-05-25 10:17, Ernie Dunbar wrote: >> El 23/05/2015 00:21, "Ernie Dunbar" <maill...@lightspeed.ca> >> escribió: >> >>> We've tried installing Zen on a Dell 2950 and we're having some >>> issues. >>> Since we expected to have them working as a failover pair, we even >>> installed it on two machines, and they're both having the same >>> problem. >>> >>> I believe that after the first initial install, Zen started up just >>> fine >>> and we were able to tinker with the user interface a bit to see how >>> it >>> works. I have no complaints there. The problems started after the >>> first >>> reboot or two. >>> >>> Now, even after several reinstalls, the system (both of them, >>> really) >>> simply fails to boot. It's almost like there's no OS installed, but >>> usually you'd get an error about that from the BIOS. We... simply >>> don't >>> get an error. It just sits there after the BIOS, RAID, and IPMI >>> load. No >>> errors are generated, and the system doesn't boot. >>> >>> If I put the original install disc into the CDROM drive and boot >>> into >>> rescue mode, I can mount the filesystem and there doesn't appear to >>> be >>> anything out of the ordinary. >>> >>> Any advice that you have for me would be greatly appreciated. It >>> also >>> sure would be nice if I could install the stable version of Debian >>> and >>> then install the packages that make Zen. >>> > > On 2015-05-23 00:26, Emilio Campos wrote: >> It looks like you didnt install grub in /dev/sda in the installation >> process... > > Sorry, I should have mentioned that I tried this. After booting into > Rescue mode, I tried the step to reinstall GRUB after verifying which > drive the Zen install was on. I've tried this every way I could think > of, and it's complicated somewhat by the fact that Debian requires > non-free drivers for the 2950's network card (which, apparently can > only > be loaded from an "external" drive - in my case, a USB key). I've tried > booting into Rescue mode both with and without that external drive, > trying to ensure that GRUB got installed to the same drive that it > expects to see without the USB key plugged in, trying to boot with and > without the key, and so forth. > > I don't have this issue with other servers running on the 2950 > hardware, > both with newer versions of Debian and Ubuntu. I suspect it's an issue > with this particular version of Debian. (which is why it would be nice > to find what packages Zen installs on top of Debian). >
I found the issue. It's all about timing and when you plug in your USB key for the special Dell network drivers. If the USB key is still plugged in when it starts the disk partitioner, it will think that the USB key is disk 0 and the first SCSI drive is disk 1. Plug that thing in when it requests the network drivers, then unplug it when the installer asks you to enter the IP address, and this problem will not exist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Zenloadbalancer-support mailing list Zenloadbalancer-support@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zenloadbalancer-support
