Bug 9379

Summary:	mageia 2 don't boot on Dell R820
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Leonard <pierre.leonard>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, pierre.leonard, tmb
Version:	2	Keywords:	NEEDINFO, NO_PATCH
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Pierre Leonard 2013-03-14 11:27:05 CET

Description of problem:
Hi,

I am IT manager at Metagenopolis unit at INRA Jouy en Josas. We manage a lot of serveurs for computing, hybride computing and for storage. We use windows hpc edition, one centos, one fedora, one Mandriva (will disepeared), and six computing servers with the mageia 2 (one Dell C6220), and one hp SL390.
I had choice Mageia, because I have used the mandriva during years and years and I am happy with it. I choose to follow the fork Mageia, because of the large community and because of the mandriva administration spirit folowing.

No the project is starting and we will scale up in a factor of five or seven all the infrastructure : IT, and Biology.

So the choice we do need to be perfect. Having Six big computing serveurs with Mageia is already a good choice and they work well. Infortunetly the Dell R820 don't boot with the mageia live. The process is very long and after aving the five "dot" over cauldron it stop. I have tested with the fedora 17 live and I get plainty of soft lock errors. I have tried with the complet mageia dvd installation, the kernel is loaded the first usb and sas pilotes are detected and then the process stop because the installation don't find the cdrom. It's the same with the mageia 3b3.

The only distribution that works is the last centos. :oops:

So this is the time to evaluate the choice. I prefere to have an homogenious installation of course. And the centos is not uptodate with the kernel and other tools.

The Dell R820 is a big computer with four xeon many cores and 768Go of memory, 2 x 10Gb ethernet, 4 x 1Gb ethernet, for ssd and twelve sas of 1To each.

I any of you have an id that cause all these problems in the mageia booting, that will be great and of course the computers could be free accessed in order to debug.

I thank you in advance.

Pierre Léonard
metagenopolis
INRA

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 2 live KDE

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.put the cd
2.boot
3.and wait a long time for nothing after two dot over the cauldron.

Reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

Pierre Leonard 2013-03-14 11:28:52 CET

Keywords: (none) => NO_PATCH
CC: (none) => pierre.leonard
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 2

Manuel Hiebel 2013-03-19 00:55:34 CET

CC: (none) => mageia, tmb

Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2013-03-19 08:40:34 CET

(In reply to Pierre Leonard from comment #0)

> 
> The Dell R820 is a big computer with four xeon many cores and 768Go of
> memory, 2 x 10Gb ethernet, 4 x 1Gb ethernet, for ssd and twelve sas of 1To
> each.

How much is "many cores" ?

Can you attach the following from booting centos on it

contents of /var/log/dmesg
output of lspci -vnn

is the cdrom an internal one or a usb one?

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2013-03-19 08:50:36 CET


What CentOS version are you using, and what kernel ?

Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-27 13:06:23 CEST

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Component: Installer => RPM Packages
Target Milestone: Mageia 2 => ---
Source RPM: mageia 2 live kde => kernel

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-22 12:21:17 CEST

This message is a reminder that Mageia 2 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately one month from now Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 2. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '2'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Mageia version prior to Mageia 2's end of life.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Mageia 2 is end of life.  If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete.

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Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2013-11-23 16:16:43 CET

Mageia 2 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''22 November''. Mageia 2 is no
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or
bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD