Install hang on a Dell PowerEdge SC1430

Steve Dickson SteveD at redhat.com
Fri Nov 16 17:40:43 UTC 2007



Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:49:57AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Are there known issues with F8 (and F7) being
>> installed on PowerEdges? Booting from DVD (and CDs)
>> I get the following three lines than nothing...
>>
>>     Loading Vmlinuz........
>>     Loading initrd.img.....
>>     Read.
> 
> Yes, there was a known issue with F7, but I *thought* we had gotten this
> fixed for F8. There is a kernel cmdline workaround for it on F7, might
> be the same problem for F8. Add "edd=skipmbr" to the boot options.
That didn't help... thanks though....

I've updated the BIOS so I'm running the latest. Is there anything
else I can added to the boot command that would give me a clue
as to what the problem is? I'm willing to spend some time on it
but three lines of output is a bit tough... :-\

steved.




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