CentOS - Aug 2014 - Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and a SSD (hardware probing issues)

I have a fleet of 2970s and we are upgrading the hardrives on the motherboard
SATA ports (A/B not the PERC backplane) when a "detecting hardware" is
performed the system crashes, reboots and gives an E1422 error code (useless
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhyMeUHJar4).

We narrowed it down to a motherboard BIOS issue, if we remove the SSD or add
noprobe to the kernel the installer does not crash.

But when specifing "noprobe" it does not appear to have the loopback
driver (and likely many more).

ERROR: failed to mount loopback device /dev/loop0 on /mnt/runtime as
/tmp/install.img: (null)
INFO: mounting stage2 failed

Next steps, I already lost my vacation to this, I hope to keep my sanity:

Load drivers from kernel boot line?
Blacklist drivers on the kernel boot line?
Serial cable logging of boot?
Other?

-Jason

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Am 31.08.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>:
> I have a fleet of 2970s and we are upgrading the hardrives on the
motherboard SATA ports (A/B not the PERC backplane) when a "detecting
hardware" is performed the system crashes, reboots and gives an E1422 error
code (useless video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhyMeUHJar4).
> 
> We narrowed it down to a motherboard BIOS issue, if we remove the SSD or
add noprobe to the kernel the installer does not crash.



Is that actually a supported configuration (in the Dell-sense)?.

Which is the ?primary" hard drive then? SATA or PERC?

Have you booted any other OS on it?
FreeBSD 10?
CentOS7?

Ubuntu?

Note that I have no idea about Dell servers. I?ve never worked with them in my
professional life - but my experience is that trying the same thing more than
three times in a row is a waste of time (and nerves: I can literally see my life
being shortened by watching server-BIOS boot-up screens?)