CentOS - Apr 2013 - Supermicro & Boot Failures with DVD Centos 6.2

Eve.8ryone,

I have had a SuperMicro machine running Centos 5.8 that had been
progressively updated with yum-cron from a 5.0 CD install.

I upgraded the SuperMicro with more memory, switched out the CD with a
DVD and tried to boot to the Centos x64 6.2 dvd.  My plan was to test
the memory before I added the hard drives, but I could not I could not
get the machine to boot from the disc.  I also tried some Fedora install
discs as well as LiveFedora and the machine would still not boot.  I
could get it to boot with a dreaded Microsoft install disc.  We also
updated the bios with the latest version and this did not make a
difference.

We have not tried to use these disks with the hard drives installed yet
because we were in the process of just testing the memory. 

Has anyone had this problem with SuperMicro's.  Is the problem as simple
as a requirement to have a hard disc installed.   Your help would be
appreciated.

Thank you,

Greg Ennis

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Eve.8ryone,
>
> I have had a SuperMicro machine running Centos 5.8 that had been
> progressively updated with yum-cron from a 5.0 CD install.
>
> I upgraded the SuperMicro with more memory, switched out the CD with a
> DVD and tried to boot to the Centos x64 6.2 dvd.  My plan was to test
> the memory before I added the hard drives, but I could not I could not
> get the machine to boot from the disc.  I also tried some Fedora install
> discs as well as LiveFedora and the machine would still not boot.  I
> could get it to boot with a dreaded Microsoft install disc.  We also
> updated the bios with the latest version and this did not make a
> difference.
>
> We have not tried to use these disks with the hard drives installed yet
> because we were in the process of just testing the memory.
>
> Has anyone had this problem with SuperMicro's.  Is the problem as
simple
> as a requirement to have a hard disc installed.   Your help would be
> appreciated.
>
Make sure, in the BIOS, that booting from the DVD is enabled. Also - you
*have* booted from the dvd on another machine, right?

I *hate* Supermicro. As I mentioned the other day on another thread, we've
stopped buying from Penguin, who are all Supermicro, and we have had a
*ton* of problems. With the 48-core and 64-core servers, which you'd think
would be top of the line, with the H8QG6 m/bs, we've had at least, um, 6
replaced out of under 30.

       mark

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:12:19PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis
wrote:
> Eve.8ryone,
> 
> I have had a SuperMicro machine running Centos 5.8 that had been
> progressively updated with yum-cron from a 5.0 CD install.
which model?
> 
> I upgraded the SuperMicro with more memory, switched out the CD with a
> DVD and tried to boot to the Centos x64 6.2 dvd.i
DVD drive or plain CD drive?

why 6.2 which is no longer supported?
Burn and verify a 6.4 version and report back.
Your issue might already have been solved if you CPU/chipset was not
supported by 6.2 but only since 6.3 or 6.4...

Cheers,

Tru
-- 
Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:12:19PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis
wrote:
> Eve.8ryone,
> 
> I have had a SuperMicro machine running Centos 5.8 that had been
> progressively updated with yum-cron from a 5.0 CD install.
which model?
> 
> I upgraded the SuperMicro with more memory, switched out the CD with a
> DVD and tried to boot to the Centos x64 6.2 dvd.i
DVD drive or plain CD drive?

why 6.2 which is no longer supported?
Burn and verify a 6.4 version and report back.
Your issue might already have been solved if you CPU/chipset was not
supported by 6.2 but only since 6.3 or 6.4...

Cheers,

Tru
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Tru,

You are right, I was just being lazy.  We are in the process of creating
a 6.4 DVD.  It is just too easy to "yum -y update" :) I had 5.8 on
this
system and there was no problem.  

Greg

<big snip>.

Hi there. 
Had a similar problem, there is a bug in isolinux, that have
been updated in 6.1 Boot a 6.0 should do the trick. It did for me.
HTH,

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Laurent,

That is interesting !!! 

We tried to boot do the i386 and then an x64 6.4 install discs this
morning, and were stopped at the familiar first line.  Do you know if
anyone has put in a bug report on this?

Greg Ennis

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