Hey all,
I just purchased a refurbished Dell PowerEdge 6105. Got it all set up with some drives in two of the four nodes and then started running into issues.
First thing I did was try installing Server 2012 R2 from a USB drive (2.0, as 3.0 drives tend to cause issues). The drive loaded the pre-boot environment correctly. After clicking "Install," I received an error stating that a media driver is missing. No hard drives were detected by the installation but they were showing up in the BIOS. I did some searching for a SATA controller, or any appropriate drivers really, online but nothing seemed to work. All the files I found were executables intended to be used after OS install. BMC and driver redirection is working just fine (which is really cool, by the way), but nothing seems to get the drives to appear in setup.
After several hours of trying with two other IT folks until 5 in the morning, I gave up and decided to just install the OS independently of the server and then put them back in. After doing this, I booted back up and it went straight into the PXE boot sequence loop. I got back into the BIOS and, lo and behold, the drives are no longer showing up.
So, either the drives show up in BIOS but not in setup, or they are already setup and don't show up in BIOS.
Specs per node (4 total):
2x AMD Opteron 4332HE 3GHz
32 GB RAM (DDR3)
Shared 1100W PSU with 1 other node (2 total in system)
1 TB 7200RPM HGST TravelStar 1k7000
Onboard RAID, not configured/enabled
All BIOS settings default
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
I just purchased a refurbished Dell PowerEdge 6105. Got it all set up with some drives in two of the four nodes and then started running into issues.
First thing I did was try installing Server 2012 R2 from a USB drive (2.0, as 3.0 drives tend to cause issues). The drive loaded the pre-boot environment correctly. After clicking "Install," I received an error stating that a media driver is missing. No hard drives were detected by the installation but they were showing up in the BIOS. I did some searching for a SATA controller, or any appropriate drivers really, online but nothing seemed to work. All the files I found were executables intended to be used after OS install. BMC and driver redirection is working just fine (which is really cool, by the way), but nothing seems to get the drives to appear in setup.
After several hours of trying with two other IT folks until 5 in the morning, I gave up and decided to just install the OS independently of the server and then put them back in. After doing this, I booted back up and it went straight into the PXE boot sequence loop. I got back into the BIOS and, lo and behold, the drives are no longer showing up.
So, either the drives show up in BIOS but not in setup, or they are already setup and don't show up in BIOS.
Specs per node (4 total):
2x AMD Opteron 4332HE 3GHz
32 GB RAM (DDR3)
Shared 1100W PSU with 1 other node (2 total in system)
1 TB 7200RPM HGST TravelStar 1k7000
Onboard RAID, not configured/enabled
All BIOS settings default
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
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