Update on 13.10 64-bit server + Dell PowerEdge R610

Fabio Marconi marconifabio at hotmail.it
Sat Jun 15 06:42:11 UTC 2013


On 06/15/2013 05:56 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two hard drives in my 'laptop', and have never had any issues. 
> I do think this is a hardware / BIOS issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 14 June 2013 23:30, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu 
> <mailto:pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Recap: having problems when 2 disks are installed in a Dell
>     PowerEdge R610 which features a Dell SAS 6 HBA (in actuality an
>     LSI  SAS1068E-IR HBA).
>
>     If I take one disk out, I can install and run 13.10 server with no
>     problems.  As soon as I put the second disk back in the machine,
>     it refuses to boot; i.e. I don't get a console and the machine
>     isn't pingable. Even more odd, after I've tried putting the second
>     disk in, and then take it back out, grub 2 won't boot through
>     anymore -- it just hangs at the OS selection prompt.  If I hit
>     <Enter> to make it boot (and don't bother re-inserting the second
>     disk), the system resumes booting through automatically.
>
>     In the absence of any suggestions, I'm going to check with Dell
>     about a HBA BIOS update.
>
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Hallo
In accord with Phil, verify that both disk are working, then probably is 
just a bios setting
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