I've got this one particular Supermicro / Xeon E3 box that keeps freezing on Centos 6.6 install. I've used the same usb key and iso on a few other SM boxes without a hitch. This box is a couple years old, but was working just fine until 2 days ago when I tried to reinstall a fresh copy of Centos.
This was happening before I upgraded the IPMI firmware and after (just now again) too. I also tried on hand at the data center, same issue.
This is a brand new drive too, so that's not the issue.
SM Board: X9SCL
Firmware Revision : 03.38
This is the 2nd time it froze during the formatting stage (attached). It froze yesterday when I was simply trying to edit the partition prior to formatting.
Trying to figure out how to update the BIOS via IPMI. Firmware is here
End User License Agreement
The instructions in the readme sound like a windows based install?
Hoping someone can enlighten me here on this BIOS update and tracing the cause of the freeze up during install.
Thank you.
This was happening before I upgraded the IPMI firmware and after (just now again) too. I also tried on hand at the data center, same issue.
This is a brand new drive too, so that's not the issue.
SM Board: X9SCL
Firmware Revision : 03.38
This is the 2nd time it froze during the formatting stage (attached). It froze yesterday when I was simply trying to edit the partition prior to formatting.
Trying to figure out how to update the BIOS via IPMI. Firmware is here
End User License Agreement
The instructions in the readme sound like a windows based install?
I actually cannot find any instructions for Linux via IPMI.1. Save this file to your computer.
2. extract the files to a DOS bootable device (such as a bootable USB stick, or CD).
2. Boot to a DOS prompt and type AMI.BAT BIOSname.###.
Hoping someone can enlighten me here on this BIOS update and tracing the cause of the freeze up during install.
Thank you.
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