I have been using OpenSuse in quite a many computers running fine but now I feel like hitting my head into the wall!
I have been trying to install OpenSuse 10.3 as well as 11 into a blade computer HP BL460c for some days and it always goes like this:
Installation per se goes quite easily (even uneventfully) and even the first boot (after isntallation) goes nicely. BUT whenever I try to reboot I always get the
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Booting from local disk…
isolinux: Disk error 01, AX=0201, drive 80
Boot failed: Press a key to retry…
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I have rtied to use any boot sector target and both Grub and LILO to no avail.
I have internal disks in the system (not using EVA array) and I don’t understand why it does this. My previous installations are on on SCSI IBM servers and standalone computers with SATA/ATA disks
Sorry, I’m not familiar with that hardware. All that comes to mind is creating a grub boot floppy (or CD). You could create one with device.map and menu.lst to bypass booting from disk. And a second with only the grub shell which would enable you to use grub’s shell commands to find what it thinks the disks and boot sectors look like. I’ve used these tools to diagnose/repair boot problems.
I did google the error message and found a number of occasions where others have encountered the same error. I presume you’ve already checked all this out.
I have tried to search the web. The CD/floppy approach is a bit awkward as BL460c is a Blade server and there is no floppy or CD disk built-in and the external disks are connected with USB - and even that needs a cable the HP interface - and we have just one of these cables to connect ALL the Blade servers.
But I’ll try it (at least to find out how (or if) the grub sees the disks and maybe then I can ask another question if not solve the problem
I stumbled across the following. It probably is not applicable, but what caught my eye was the entirely different syntax for grub to identify the device. Thought it might provide a clue.
