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October 30th, 2014 18:00
R220 fails to boot to Debian 6.0.9
Greetings,
Tried to install Debian OS in my first R220. Boot failed in acpi. The BIOS version of my R220 is 1.1.4.
If I hack my boot media to add "acpi=off" in the kernel boot option then it boots successfully.
If I boot the blade with CentOS it boots successfully too. So problem is only with Debian and perhaps its version of acpid.
Questions:
- Is there a BIOS setting which will allow me to boot Debian without adding "acpi=off" to kernel boot option?
- Will updating BIOS from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1 fix this problem?
Thanks for help.
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DELL-Josh Cr
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October 30th, 2014 18:00
Hi,
You could try updating the BIOS, but the release notes don’t show anything that would change this behavior. I found some instances where older kernels worked, you may want to try that. Debian is not a validated OS, you might want to see if Ubuntu which is Debian based, works.
sialnije
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October 30th, 2014 19:00
Hi Josh,
Unfortunately our product is based on Debian 6.0.9.
Moving to Ubuntu won't help anyway. I got the "acpi=off" hack from the web. There are quite a few complains about R220 won't boot in Ubuntu 14.x.x. I am surprise that Dell has not heard of this problem.
We previously use the PowerEdge R210 II for our product. R210 does not have this problem.
Right now I am only investigating if our software is compatible with the new R220. the acpi=off option is only feasible in the lab here. This hack cannot be use out in the field.
Thanks for the update though.
manczyn
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December 6th, 2014 15:00
Hi
I have the same problem with R220 and Debian. I cant install the newest version of Debian, because of the instalation stops, the screen gets black. And for example when i install the newest, stable version of Ubuntu, it don't see the hardware raid1, but only the 2 hard drives.
Have you any solutions of these situations?
Andrzej
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December 7th, 2014 19:00