# Trouble getting initial SLES 10 SP2 install completed **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Install-Boot\ **Created:** [October 13, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/trouble-getting-initial-sles-10-sp2-install-completed/21615 "2011-10-13T10:22:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/trouble-getting-initial-sles-10-sp2-install-completed/21615/1 "2011-10-13T10:22:13Z")
I’m trying to just do a basic installation of SLES 10 SP2 with OES2 SP3, on an HP Proliant DL380 G6 server with dual Xeon processors. I was able to do the basic installation yesterday, and get through to the point of starting to configure the server. However, I decided to re-do it today, as some changes in direction (even the server name) were made and also I had the OES DVD in-hand so I was hoping to do the installations concurrently. Every attempt at installation today has failed. The first item issue is not Novell-related, in that apparently if PXE is enabled on this server’s NICs, it fails to boot properly (seems only when an OS is installed.) Got past that and installed it yesterday with just SLES. [http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2009/09/red-screen-of-death-hp-dl360-g6s.html](http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2009/09/red-screen-of-death-hp-dl360-g6s.html) This was the point at which directions were changed, so I attempted to re-install from scratch, but this time adding in the OES installation as well. Trying to install either removing and re-creating, or using, the existing partitions as created from the day before, hung at the “installation summary” step, similar to the following: [http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/wmeLDNzzdHgBy3tefx5J](http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/wmeLDNzzdHgBy3tefx5J) As I didn’t have partitioning tools handy, and it didn’t pass that point even if I deleted the partition & re-created it, I ended up removing the RAID logical drive array & re-creating that instead, which of course forced it to see everything as new & create a new partition. At that point, installation seemed to be proceeding, as it had worked the previous day; then suddenly the server rebooted for no reason. Not knowing if this was part of the installation (as I hadn’t been observing it continuously) I let it continue, and it hung on the default of trying to boot from the hard drive. So I started again. This time, I was able to re-install even though the partitions already existed, and it properly formatted when I configured to delete the existing partition & create a new one. It got to the point of seeming to be much of the way done, and hung after installing some packaged called “gail” (something I’m not familiar with.) So I restarted, again with removing & re-creating the partition, this time not including the OES install but just basic SLES, and choosing the option to disable APIC. This time, it got done to the point of having 1:57 left, right after the Mozilla install, and hung again. I don’t know why it is hanging or not completing what should be a basic installation, on new server hardware. I don’t know if there is some setting I should change that is causing the hang-ups. I just know that the first installation worked, and everything since has failed. Any suggestions? I feel as if it simply shouldn’t be this difficult to complete, but perhaps there is some other hardware or setting issue that I am overlooking that will help this complete (?) Thanks for any help or enlightenment. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/trouble-getting-initial-sles-10-sp2-install-completed/21615/2 "2011-10-13T14:20:13Z")
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:22:13 GMT DE [nowhere@all.disorg](mailto:nowhere@all.disorg) wrote:[color=blue] > Any suggestions? I feel as if it simply shouldn’t be this difficult > to complete, but perhaps there is some other hardware or setting > issue that I am overlooking that will help this complete (?) > > Thanks for any help or enlightenment.[/color] > Hi > Did you check the install media? md5sum the iso image? – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 11.4 (x86\_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop up 3 days 10:19, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.23, 0.22 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 285.05.09 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/trouble-getting-initial-sles-10-sp2-install-completed/21615/3 "2011-10-14T00:36:02Z")
malcolmlewis;2146036 Wrote:[color=blue] > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:22:13 GMT > DE [nowhere@all.disorg](mailto:nowhere@all.disorg) wrote:[color=green] > > > Any suggestions? I feel as if it simply shouldn’t be this difficult > > to complete, but perhaps there is some other hardware or setting > > issue that I am overlooking that will help this complete (?) > > > > Thanks for any help or enlightenment.[/color] > > Hi > > Did you check the install media? md5sum the iso image? > > Burned a new CD, no help. Last round, it got to a point of wanting to > write GRUB to a floppy, which baffles me … I can’t for the life of me > figure out why it wanted to boot from a floppy, though that does explain > the prior reboot & that it of course couldn’t read from the hard drive > yet. I’ve reconfigured the array back to ~850GB with a spare, instead > of 1.2TB, and this appears to have now allowed the installation to > complete. Now I am re-trying it with the OES installation included > again, but with a smaller partition size. > > I’m not sure why it should have problems with a partition that it > assigned by default, but I didn’t really want it to use all 1.2TB > anyway. > > Thanks.[/color] ## – de de’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=22320](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=22320) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=446791](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=446791) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/trouble-getting-initial-sles-10-sp2-install-completed/21615/4 "2011-10-14T00:56:40Z")
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:36:02 GMT de [de@no-mx.forums.novell.com](mailto:de@no-mx.forums.novell.com) wrote: [color=blue] > malcolmlewis;2146036 Wrote:[color=green] > > > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:22:13 GMT > > DE [nowhere@all.disorg](mailto:nowhere@all.disorg) wrote:[color=darkred] > > > > > Any suggestions? I feel as if it simply shouldn’t be this > > > difficult to complete, but perhaps there is some other hardware > > > or setting issue that I am overlooking that will help this > > > complete (?) > > > > > > Thanks for any help or enlightenment.[/color] > > > Hi > > > Did you check the install media? md5sum the iso image? > > > > Burned a new CD, no help. Last round, it got to a point of wanting > > to write GRUB to a floppy, which baffles me … I can’t for the > > life of me figure out why it wanted to boot from a floppy, though > > that does explain the prior reboot & that it of course couldn’t > > read from the hard drive yet. I’ve reconfigured the array back to > > ~850GB with a spare, instead of 1.2TB, and this appears to have now > > allowed the installation to complete. Now I am re-trying it with > > the OES installation included again, but with a smaller partition > > size. > > > > I’m not sure why it should have problems with a partition that it > > assigned by default, but I didn’t really want it to use all 1.2TB > > anyway. > > > > Thanks.[/color] > > [/color] > Hi > I would have created a separate /boot partition of say 256MB outside of > the RAID to boot from. – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 11.4 (x86\_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop up 3 days 20:55, 4 users, load average: 0.18, 0.38, 0.50 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 285.05.09 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/trouble-getting-initial-sles-10-sp2-install-completed/21615/5 "2011-10-14T10:32:55Z")
malcolmlewis wrote: …[color=blue] > Hi > I would have created a separate /boot partition of say 256MB outside of > the RAID to boot from. > [/color] > Thanks. I was reading up on all sorts of “advice”, as I haven’t done an > SLES+OES installation before (but did a fair bit of other Linux systems > some years ago, so not a total newb.) But I couldn’t find a consistent > indication of whether that was recommended or why, though the HP RAID > config allows for designating a boot partition of \<8GB. And, of course, > it’s a bit late now unless I want to re-re-re-do the whole thing yet again. Thanks for the advice, will keep it in mind as I move foward. Still kinda baffled as to why the 1.2TB hung everything up so much, but everything (except one issue) did seem able to complete on a smaller partition, not going with the defaults. I think part of my problem is that SLES partitions a little differently by default than what I was used to in the past (which, IIRC after a lot of years, involved separate volumes for VAR, HOME, USERS …)