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Can't boot from hard drive on HP ProLiant DL380 G3

Hey all, I've just recently acquired 2 HP ProLiant DL380s and I'm trying to install Ubuntu server edition (8.10) as their operating systems.

I have a single 40GB SCSI drive installed in each, and the operating system installation goes well, but when I reboot the servers after the OS install, it goes through the POST process and then tries to boot from the hard disk. It says "attempting to boot from hard disk" and just freezes there.

Any help with this would be appreciated, I want to get these servers up and running ASAP.

Thanks, everyone.

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Originally Posted by beno1990 (Post 3401344)

From what I remember (I had a couple of these a few years ago), you have to boot from CD-ROM, then manually load either the cciss module, or the megaraid and megaraid_old modules, then go back to the menu, and boot from hard drive. I *THINK* the cciss module is what you're after, but I've slept since then....:)

Once you get it booted, use the mkinitrd command to generate a new image with the appropriate module(s) in it, and you should be fine from there.

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Originally Posted by TB0ne (Post 3401379)

Wow I can't believe the developers at Ubuntu would make such a complicated process for booting the o/s...Can you boot from the live CD again and check the contents of /etc/fstab? These should have information on where the hard drives are located in /dev and where they are usually mounted. Here's an example of mine:

Code:

~$ cat /etc/fstab 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point>  <type>  <options>      <dump>  <pass>

proc            /proc          proc    defaults        0      0

# /dev/sda1

UUID=1ba32785-e91c-4d20-a7d6-4eb09379d8a4 /              ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0      1

# /dev/sda5

UUID=5b4614d9-0d9a-4a53-8c7b-a609a7b6bbde none            swap    sw              0      0

/dev/scd0      /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0      0

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Originally Posted by asymptote (Post 3401397)

Ubuntu didn't do it...this happened to me with both RedHat and SuSE (Fedora core and OpenSuSE). It's due to the kernel module not getting built in to the boot image written to disk.

It's a guess for me, though, but that's what it turned out to be for my systems. Ubuntu may be totally different, but he's not booting from the "Live" version, but the server version...

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Last night I got impatient with Ubuntu and I don't have a mouse or keyboard to use the live CD with properly so I ended up sticking my Debian install CD into the drive and I installed Debian instead.

Debian is working great, and the server now boots and it's fully configured.

Thanks for all the quick responses, though.