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November 24th, 2021 13:00
Dell S6100-on not loading ONIE
Hi Everyone,
I have a Dell S6100-ON switch which is not booting up into the grub loader/ONIE. After reboot I get the following message:
BIOS (Dell, Inc.) Boot Selector
S6100 3.25.0.3 4 IO card / 2 port sfp+ mgmt
Booting Primary BIOS
SMF Version 0x8: Last POR=0x22, Reset=0x11
POST Configuration
CPU Signature 406D8
CPU FamilyID=6, Model=4D, SteppingId=8, Processor=0
Microcode Revision 125
Platform ID: 0x10041A4A
PMG_CST_CFG_CTL: 0x40006
BBL_CR_CTL3: 0x7E2801FF
Misc EN: 0x840081
Gen PM Con1: 0x3008
Therm Status: 0x884E0000
POST Control=0xEA000301, Status=0xE6009F00
BIOS initializations...
CPGC Memtest ................................ PASS
POST:
RTC Battery OK at last cold boot
RTC date Saturday 11/24/2021 21:28:14
POST SPD test ............................... PASS
POST Lower DRAM Memory test
.... Perf cnt (curr,fixed): 0x54DC149C0,0xA9B82D328
POST Lower DRAM Memory test ................. PASS
POST Lower DRAM ECC check ................... PASS
SM Bus1 PHY...done
DxE POST
POST Upper DRAM Memory test
Short memory cell test
....
POST Upper DRAM Memory test ................. PASS
POST PCI test ............................... PASS
POST NVRAM check ............................ PASS
POST overall test results ................... PASS
NVRAM: 00 9F 00 E6 01 03 00 EA
Version 2.17.1245. Copyright (C) 2015 American Megatrends, Inc.
BIOS Date: 10/12/2015 19:23:32 Ver: 0ACBZ028
Press or to enter setup.
From BIOS I have 2 boot options:
1. UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell
2. P0: Generic FCR SATA Loader Lo
If I boot into UEFI shell, it loads a shell and I am not sure how to use this shell. If I boot into the Generic FCR SATA Loader, I just get the below output:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key
Any suggestions on how to recover this? Please let me know
~ Regards,
Bharath
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DELL-Young E
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November 24th, 2021 22:00
Hi, thanks for choosing Dell.
I don't know if you are using OS 9 or 10 but you told us you see only two boot options. I don't see "OS" for a boot option, meaning you are most likely to need to re install the OS. (Please proceed with caution) If that doesn't help it might be a hardware issue I'm assuming.
bharath_r
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November 27th, 2021 13:00
Thanks for your response. To give you a little more information, the switch was not installed with OS9 or OS10. It was installed with BigSwitch SwitchLight OS. And the two boot options I see are in BIOS. I don't get any grub boot option. I can't seem to enter the Grub at all.
I can definitely try re-installing OS. But could you please give me pointers on how (a link might help)? Is there a USB install option? Please let me know.
bharath_r
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November 28th, 2021 11:00
I tried a few more things I was able to use ONIE recovery ISO to boot into ONIE recovery mode.
When I check blkid, I see that /dev/sda is not mounted:
I tried to see if any partitions are created for /dev/sda and looks like there are none:
I tried to create partitions on /dev/sda filesystem and looks like its erroring out:
This looks like the HDD inside the switch has failed. Or is there something I am missing here?
Also is there a way to use the USB drive inserted as the storage instead of the internal HDD? Please let me know
bharath_r
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November 28th, 2021 18:00
This can be closed. This is a faulty SSD. I was able to see find these logs: