CentOS - Nov 2010 - Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM 
System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install 
setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears 
to be successful, but the system will not boot - I just get a message 
(presumably) from BIOS saying that boot from hard disk 0. If I start the 
installer again after this, or boot rescue mode off the install DVD, the 
installation is correctly found, however.

Does anyone have any idea what may cause this and/or how I can fix the 
problem? Or is there at least anyone out there who has tried CentOS on 
the same type of hardware?

Note that I've tried (re)installing several times, and also tested 
CentOS 5.4, but the result is always the same. I've also used CentOS 
without any problems on an x3550 M2, i.e. a slightly older variant of 
the hardware. I've (so far) installed with the default disk layout and 
package selection.

- Toralf



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2010/11/11 Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com>
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM
> System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install
> setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears
> to be successful, but the system will not boot - I just get a message
> (presumably) from BIOS saying that boot from hard disk 0. If I start the
> installer again after this, or boot rescue mode off the install DVD, the
> installation is correctly found, however.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what may cause this and/or how I can fix the
> problem? Or is there at least anyone out there who has tried CentOS on
> the same type of hardware?
>
> Note that I've tried (re)installing several times, and also tested
> CentOS 5.4, but the result is always the same. I've also used CentOS
> without any problems on an x3550 M2, i.e. a slightly older variant of
> the hardware. I've (so far) installed with the default disk layout and
> package selection.
>
> - Toralf
>
> it may be that grub was not installed.

-- 
When one door is closed, another is open.
(Robert Nesta Marley)
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On 11/11/10 14:22, Toralf Lund wrote:
> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM
> System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install
> setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears
> to be successful, but the system will not boot - I just get a message
> (presumably) from BIOS saying that boot from hard disk 0. If I start the
> installer again after this, or boot rescue mode off the install DVD, the
> installation is correctly found, however.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what may cause this and/or how I can fix the
> problem? Or is there at least anyone out there who has tried CentOS on
> the same type of hardware?
>
> Note that I've tried (re)installing several times, and also tested
> CentOS 5.4, but the result is always the same. I've also used CentOS
> without any problems on an x3550 M2, i.e. a slightly older variant of
> the hardware. I've (so far) installed with the default disk layout and
> package selection.
>
> - Toralf
>
>
Make sure all the firmware is up to date. I've had an IBM x3550 M3 and it
couldn't even boot a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit CD with the firmware it shipped
with.