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December 1st, 2024 14:08

Dell R410 stuck on Initializing Firmware Interfaces

I have dell EMC ME5012 storage with 12 Hard disk (Dell Emc 16TB each).

I coonect it with sas hd mini cable (12GB) and i use hb830 raid card.

its connected directly to the server with sas cable, when i create raid5 and boot system its working normaly but

when i turn off the storage like 5 to 6 minute then turn on the unit, server not booting.its stuch on Initializing Firmware Interfaces but not boot.

i try to change other sever R910 but its just the same. stuck 0n Initializing UEFI. NOT BOOTING.

please if anyone have any solution.

thankyou

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December 1st, 2024 14:14

this is video.

its just stuck on this screen.

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December 1st, 2024 14:18

this is the other server R910 same error

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December 1st, 2024 14:21

hard disk model dell emc exos x18

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December 1st, 2024 23:27

Hello thanks for choosing Dell and welcome to our community.

 

I have dell EMC ME5012 storage with 12 Hard disk (Dell Emc 16TB each). -> So I see that you have a server connected to a storage.

Can you answer a couple of questions for us to help you further:

  1. disconnect from ME5012, can you still boot just fine?
  2. Disconnect from H830, can you still boot just fine?

I assume you have that disk in the picture plugged in. Did the issue started AFTER you added the disk? Or did this happen before as well?

Respectfully,

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December 2nd, 2024 08:20

Can you answer a couple of questions for us to help you further:

  1. disconnect from ME5012, can you still boot just fine?
  2. Disconnect from H830, can you still boot just fine?

I assume you have that disk in the picture plugged in. Did the issue started AFTER you added the disk? Or did this happen before as well?

Respectfully,

1-Yes if i disconnect ME5012 from server its booting direct.

2-Yes even i discconnect sas cable from h830 also booting ok

the picture that i upload for the hard disk its just for knowldge about the hard disk.

the problem after turn off the ME5012 for 5 to 6 minutes. when the light of cache in back side of the unit tunf off after restore the power to the me5012 server not booting.

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December 2nd, 2024 08:46

Hello,

please can you check BIOS version and Lifecycle controller?

Did you try with other disk type?

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December 2nd, 2024 09:27

Just to clarify... you have a ME5012, which is a "full blown" RAID SAN/ARRAY direct connect to a another old RAID HBA(H830) which is within an realy old 11Gen Server?

From the past:

R410 -> 6G SAS HBA (NON RAID) -> MD3200(RAID SAN)

R410 -> H800/H810 (RAID) -> MD1200(JBOD)

Did you try to use BIOS Mode instead of UEFI(a Switch will break most already installed OS(you can switch back of course) for testing?

Regards,
Joerg

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December 2nd, 2024 13:56

@Origin3k​ 

yes i try Bios and UEFI both but no result

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