PowerEdge R900 boot about 10 min

Question

Hello. For some reason, my PowerEdge R900 took a very long time to boot. The server freezes on this screen for about 10 minutes. What could be the reason? My last actions were RAID6 array creation. Now I destroyed the created array, reset the controller to defaults. But nothing has changed. Server still freezes for 10 minutes on that screen. Thanks for any insights. PS. At the start of boot the disks behave like this: https://youtu.be/c7h8KRSJCqo maybe it means something?

i_Glide · Accepted Answer

Thanks. But the issue is different.

Issue is in DRAC. To clarify in Virtual media, attached via Virtual Media JAVA-plugin. Sometimes it crashed due to timeout. Like this

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And then, after reboot, server went into an 10min freezing.

Decision is full power disconnect.

Thanx everyone.

DELL-Young E · Answer

Hi,

To start I would take the server to its MInimum to Post configuration. That is removing everything from the server but the following;

One Processor in CPU socket one.
One fully buffered DIMM in Slot one of Memory Riser_A.
IO Riser installed
One Power Supply
3.5" SAS Backplane or 2.5" SAS PIB (Peripheral Interface Board) installed and connected to motherboard via 100 pin cable.
Control panel connected to SAS backplane / PIB
Power Distribution Board connected to the power supply, motherboard, SAS backplane / PIB

PowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID

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