A text mode alternate CD installation has worked for me when the desktop and server CDs failed.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jason Joines <joi...@as.okstate.edu> wrote: > Sebastien Estienne wrote: > > Have you applied all the firmware upgrade to this server BIOS + raid > controller? > > > > Sebastien Estienne > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 17:16, Jason Joines <joi...@as.okstate.edu> > wrote: > >> Sebastien Estienne wrote: > >>> try benchmarking with a jaunty live cd mounting you hardy partition so > >>> you can test a newer kernel > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Sebastien E. > >>> > >>> > >>> Le 27 avr. 09 à 20:15, Jason Joines <joi...@as.okstate.edu> a écrit : > >>> > >>>> I have a dell 2550 server that I want to get Ubuntu on. I > >>>> tried a > >>>> few months ago with the initial 8.04 release and the install was so > >>>> slow > >>>> I gave up. I had tried the mini.iso cd, desktop cd, server cd, and > >>>> alternate cd with the same results. > >>>> > >>>> Recently I decided to try again with the 8.04.2 media and just > >>>> let > >>>> it keep running. Instead of assuming it had timed out I would go > >>>> check > >>>> on it once a day and after many days it was finally installed. As an > >>>> example of the slow install, when using the text install and at the > >>>> point where the dialog said "Installing the base system" it took 66 > >>>> minutes to go from a 33% status to a 39% status. Also, by watching > >>>> logs > >>>> it seemed that the package retrieval from the internet was really fast > >>>> but it became super slow any time it was "unpacking". > >>>> > >>>> The system has a broadcom1 Gbps nic, two pentium III 933 cpu's, 1 > >>>> GB of RAM, three 74 GB u160 scsi drives configured as raid 0 via the > >>>> builtin dell raid controller which is using the aacraid module. I've > >>>> tried both ext3 and xfs as the filesystem. > >>>> > >>>> This system was running windows server 2k3 and wasn't noticeably > >>>> slow. I also have an identical system that is running Ubuntu 7.10 and > >>>> it seems to be over three times as fast via these simple tests: > >>>> > >>>> 7.10 System running 2.6.22 kernel > >>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=gigfile00 bs=1k count=1048576 > >>>> 1048576+0 records in > >>>> 1048576+0 records out > >>>> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 29.5587 seconds, 36.3 MB/s > >>>> > >>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=gigfile00 bs=1M count=1024 > >>>> 1024+0 records in > >>>> 1024+0 records out > >>>> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 29.1349 seconds, 36.9 MB/s > >>>> > >>>> 8.04.2 System running 2.6.24 kernel > >>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=gigfile00 bs=1M count=1024 > >>>> 1024+0 records in > >>>> 1024+0 records out > >>>> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 98.4516 s, 10.9 MB/s > >>>> > >>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=gigfile00 bs=1k count=1048576 > >>>> 1048576+0 records in > >>>> 1048576+0 records out > >>>> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 93.9246 s, 11.4 MB/s > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I found this bug report > >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/249964 about > >>>> these > >>>> smp systems having the aacraid driver hang under high load. However, > >>>> this box isn't under any load and I haven't had any of the log > >>>> messages > >>>> reported. I decided to try the fix anyway so I recompiled the kernel > >>>> after changing: > >>>> #define AAC_MAX_32BIT_SGBCOUNT ((unsigned short)256) > >>>> to > >>>> #define AAC_MAX_32BIT_SGBCOUNT ((unsigned short)127) > >>>> in aacraid. It didn't help. > >>>> > >>>> I also tried disabling smp via "maxcpus=1" in grub. It did > >>>> disable > >>>> smp but it didn't help. > >>>> > >>>> Any suggestions? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Jason Joines > >>>> ================================= > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> ubuntu-server mailing list > >>>> ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > >>>> More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > >> > >> I booted from a 9.04 cd and ran dd from the installer shell. The > >> kerenel was 2.6.28. I got the same results as far as speed is > >> concerned. However, I was eventually able to generate the errors and > >> hang reported by others in the bug report: > >> > >> aacraid: Host adapter abort request (2,0,0,0) > >> aacraid: Host adapt reset request. SCSI hang? > >> > >> Is this a vanilla kernel bug or Ubuntu specific? I need to get > >> this box up and running so if another distribution doesn't have the bug > >> I could change. > >> > >> > >> Jason > >> =========== > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ubuntu-server mailing list > >> ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > >> More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > > > > > Yes, the BIOS and all the firmware is at the latest version. > > > Jason > =========== > > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net
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