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September 24th, 2012 13:00
Installing CentOS POWEREDGE 2850
Hello:
I was looking for online discussions about issues instaling an OS on DELL 2850 and came across this discussion. My problem is this: I am trying to install centOS 6.2 on a PE 2850 and having all types of issues. First, there was an eror "you do not have enough RAM to install centOS on this machine". I overcame that with a recommendation from the good folks at centOS, who suggested 'turn off OS install'...I did that and the error went away. Now I am trying to install the OS; the screen goes blank (dark) and stays that way for more than an hour. I restart and instead of instaling the OS again, I choose to install 'basic video driver only'; which installs! but when it restarts, it promtps me for a password and would not accept the password I created. I did this several times and each time the same result; won't accept the PW I created. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
DELL-Jonathan S
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September 24th, 2012 14:00
Hi Kalliman,
I don't imagine it's going to be very easy to get CentOS 6 to work on the 2850 due to their relative age difference. The last release RHEL supported on the 2850 was 5. It was probably a good idea to use text mode since the new Anaconda graphical installer is certainly too much for the 2850's limited integrated graphics and I would have suggested you try that if you hadn't mentioned it. I'm not sure what the deal with the password is. Are you logging in to a tty or SSH? By default in RHEL 6 SSH root logins are disabled, so maybe your password is in fact working? If it's the tty (and the password is indeed not working) then I would suggest as a diagnostic procedure to do a password reset according to the procedure documented here: vicker313.wordpress.com/.../recover-root-password-in-rhel6 You don't have to make it blank, just trying to see if resetting it (to anything at all!) will enable you to log in. Finally, the last thing I would suggest considering is if you are using 64-bit CentOS 6, try 32-bit instead. I know it is a 64-bit CPU in the 2850 but I have seen newer Linux distros in 64-bit do poorly on older hardware (random reboots), while 32-bit worked fine. Let me know what you find out and how it goes!
kalliman
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September 25th, 2012 13:00
Hello Johnathan,
I did visit the DELL product Support page and the centOS 6.2 is not listed amongst the supported OS; so I was already leaning on using another OS but thanks for crystalizing. I will attempt the RHEL 5 and see what happens.