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SuperMicro IPMI Black Screen
Hi, previously i use IPMI at virmach to install Debian like year ago and now i want to install Centos 7. after boot and select install and show fews text and then it show black screen instead installation menu. i just want to install centos 7 with minimal and no gnome/kde.
anyone know how to solve this and have experience with it. thanks
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Did you try keyboard? E.g. press enter few times
already do that, still black screen. but its how gui when select to install centos.
How long have you wait? Maybe the uploading of iso failed.
almost 1hour, it already show centos install. i think iso uploading successfully.
after this screen https://prnt.sc/jtuygj its only show black screen.
i will try using older centos 7 iso.
Have you tried to reload/restart the IPMI Controller?
Try to reboot the IPMI.
For your case, it causes by raid cache. Any iso will have the same result. You have to start the iso with disable raid syncing or more simpler, just boot some sort of rescue disk and format the disk (even Windows does).
thanks @FHR @levnode @AlyssaD @key900 for help.
i try to reboot IPMI, still, and then try older ISO CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso and now work. dont know why failed on new build version of ISO. thanks everyone
Do you use a processor with a graphic card in this server?
The CentOS 7 graphical installer on SuperMicro E3 systems will generally result in problems. Use VNC installation instead.
http://www.danpros.com/2016/02/how-to-install-centos-7-remotely-using-vnc
I have always installed Centos 07 in IPMI supermicro and all my servers are E3.
I have not had that problem.
but try using VNC and see what happens
im not using graphic card, just E3 server.
nah provider always have more experience with it, im rarely to install OS if server running in months or years, so i dont know how to install via vnc. im using java console, and on web java always need update even using latest jre and firefox/chrome.
if this problem occur at least at 2016, why supermicro not patched cause supermicro more popular right now than ex, dell idrac.
Can you show a picture of the error or the black screen that shows it?
E3 server with what CPU exactly ? Some of them have a graphic card built in - Aspeed IPMI relies on Aspeed graphic card to transmit video; if you have any GPU, including built in the CPU this will prevent IPMI from picking up Video.
Hope it clarifies.
i cant, literally black screen without any text or images.
Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3, like intel graphics etc right. thanks for give insight. is cloudiver use supermicro ipmi too or have own os installer with raid config.
We have installer over PXE, capable of RAID, but give access to IPMI when Customer requests :-).
its good for clouvider, every provider should consider to have this feature. that will be an additional value and can save time on customers side.
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