HP Proliant DL DL360p Gen8 - Installing SLES 11 sp3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Install-Boot
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Hi

I have a new HP Proliant DL DL360p Gen8 and I am having trouble installing SLES 11 sp3 on this server using the ISO image @;

http://download.novell.com/Download?..BiB4~&ref=suse

Can not seem to boot off the HDD when trying the initial boot after installation!

When I run system crash & repair seems to indicate a problem with the Kernel! This is a new machine and according to HP the hardware is fine but this does not solve my issue

Does anyone have a step by step guide to install this OS on this server … seems that HP and SUSE should have a link somewhere?

How can I check that my drivers are up to date especially the RAID controller and such? Is there a special configuration of the RAID controller to install SLES 11 ?

Thanks

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morganf16 wrote:
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I have a new HP Proliant DL DL360p Gen8 and I am having trouble
installing SLES 11 sp3 on this server using the ISO image @;

http://download.novell.com/Download?..BiB4~&ref=suse

Can not seem to boot off the HDD when trying the initial boot after
installation!

When I run system crash & repair seems to indicate a problem with the
Kernel! This is a new machine and according to HP the hardware is fine
but this does not solve my issue

Does anyone have a step by step guide to install this OS on this server
… seems that HP and SUSE should have a link somewhere?

How can I check that my drivers are up to date especially the RAID
controller and such? Is there a special configuration of the RAID
controller to install SLES 11 ?[/color]

Does your server have a Px2x series Smart Array controller? If so, have you
seen
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03764422&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=5177953&prodTypeId=15351
?

As for HP and SUSE guides, please see
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/os/certification.html?var1=DL360p%20Gen8

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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Hi Simon,

I have checked the version of the image I have which is 1.4.88

I will check the other links here and also will run a repair report and post to see if anything stands out

Thanks in advance

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[QUOTE=smflood;15077]morganf16 wrote:
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I have a new HP Proliant DL DL360p Gen8 and I am having trouble
installing SLES 11 sp3 on this server using the ISO image @;

http://download.novell.com/Download?..BiB4~&ref=suse

Can not seem to boot off the HDD when trying the initial boot after
installation!

When I run system crash & repair seems to indicate a problem with the
Kernel! This is a new machine and according to HP the hardware is fine
but this does not solve my issue

Does anyone have a step by step guide to install this OS on this server
… seems that HP and SUSE should have a link somewhere?

How can I check that my drivers are up to date especially the RAID
controller and such? Is there a special configuration of the RAID
controller to install SLES 11 ?[/color]

Does your server have a Px2x series Smart Array controller? If so, have you
seen
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03764422&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=5177953&prodTypeId=15351
?

As for HP and SUSE guides, please see
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/os/certification.html?var1=DL360p%20Gen8

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner[/QUOTE]

Hi Simon,

Making some progress here …

I have made 2 partitions ( 1 for OS - 2 disks(Raid 1); 1 for data - 6 disks Raid (50) )

I am now getting the following error when trying to boot from the Hard Disks

Grub Loading stage 1.5
Grub loading, please wait …
Error 21

Any ideas ??