X2100M2 Service Processor keeps crashing
I'm having quite a bad experience with the X2100M2 series ILO / Service Processor. Initially I was able to install Solaris on the server (with attached DVDROM) without problems. After messing up the kernel I tried to install Solaris using the remotely mounted drive from a windows machine. All works great but at some point the Java KVM app crashed and left me with an unusable machine... Also, the embedded RAID is totally crap for anything other than Windows-based installs.
Things i've tried so far:
- Wipe the disks with DBAN in order to kill the partition tables.
- Remove one of the disks.
- Install OpenSolaris, CentOS4.4, Debian3.1 in order get a working system to move along with.
- Upgrade the BIOS and Remote Console to v1.80 (from the 1.1 CDROM).
Right now, nothing will install as all installers will "hang" the system at the stage corresponding with "Configuring /dev". And with "hang" I mean, even the Service Processor becomes unreachable and I need to have an onsite engineer unplug the power from the box, lame... Compared to the X4100 this ILO solution is nowhere near what you'd expect to use in an enterprise.
I have no clue on where to start now. The system is empty, after a reset I can access the console. RAID is off, all BIOS settings are default.
Anybody?
