Kickstart Installation Problem
Dear Friends, I have CentOS 6.2 64 bit os in my dell server. When I try to install CentOS or scientific linux using NFS so it is not working and getting me error “unable to download kickstart file”. My...
View ArticleCan NOT Delete LV (in Use) Problem…
We have CentOS 5.6 on DELL server. I create VG and LV on one SSD disk. after couple weeks I decide to delete it. I unmount file system but can not delete LV. It say “in use”. I try following but still...
View ArticleLshw On A Newer Dell
Odd thing: I just installed and tried to run lshw on a Dell R415 running 5.8. It goes through the subsystems it’s scanning, hits IDE, and that’s it - it just sits there. I’ve waited minutes.Anyone else...
View ArticleFencing A Dell T110 II
I think I know the answer to this question based on all of the research I’ve done, but figured I’d ask anyway.I needed a couple of servers for an HA cluster, and our “order” guy here ordered me a...
View ArticleDell Unofficial Community Repository – What Do You Think?
Hi all.I am currently gathering information about firmware update on Dell PowerEdge machines. I’ve found http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware-tools_announcement and...
View ArticleDell Firmware Repository – Out Of Date Firmware?
Hi All.I am using dell firmware repository (http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/OMSA). To update all firmware on my Dell PowerEdge R310 I use: yum install $(bootstrap_firmware)...
View ArticleFencing Nodes With Drac Under 5.9
Hi all,A recent update to CentOS 5.9 has broken my cluster’s ability to fence nodes. I have two Dell’s which are both fenced via their DRAC6 cards. The current configuration in cluster.conf for the...
View ArticleHow To Know Hardware RAID Failure
Hi,We have on an old Dell 2850 with 4 SCSI drives, where we put a Hardware RAID5 on 3 disks and left 1 as spare. I dont remember exactly, but the RAID was setup in the BIOS, and when installing...
View ArticleDell R515 With PERC H700 – JBOD?
Hello, I’m curiuos if anyone knows if it’s possible to set up a Dell R515 (which has PERC H700) to be JBOD. It seems the only options are RAID0 or RAID1. I read posts, where people say it can by done...
View ArticleRHEL Subscriptions
Hello List Members.I was recently approached by Dell stating that I HAVE TO renew my Red Hat Subscriptions. I challenged this statement and was informed that this has always been the case and that all...
View ArticleCannot Kickstart CentOS 6 On Dell Blade Error Cannot Find C0t0
I have an intermittent problem with my Dell blades, out of 80 blades 69 of them kickstarted CentOS 6 fine using PXE The other 11, I get a c0t0 not found error (indicating it is not finding the local...
View ArticleOEM Suggestions
Hey, folks, I’m working on finding some new compute nodes. What I’m looking for is a 64 core box, with room enough for a lot of RAM. I can get it from Dell, or HP (bleah! a 4U box), but I need to have...
View ArticleStill X Problems
As I posted yesterday, 6.5, a new Dell with a Quadro k2000. I installed kmod-nvidia, and startx works fine… but runlevel 5 fails.Any suggestions? mark
View ArticleTest, And H/W
Hi, folks, This is a test post; to make it of interest, here’s an issue you might want to be aware of, those with not brand new hardware. We’ve got a few Dell PE R415s. A 2TB b/u drive on one was...
View ArticleDELL U2412M Monitor Slow Boot
Using large Dell U2412M monitor here, with CentOS7. It is really slow to boot up, each time it would hang after the following messages for a very long time, with no logs, then it would continue to boot...
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