Boot of Dell 1750 fails with multiple SCSI drives installed

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "CG" == Clint Gilders <techservices at onlinehobbyist.com> writes:

CG> Hi All
CG> We have a brand new Dell Power Edge 1750 with an LSILogic 1030 Ultra 4
CG> SCSI Adapter and 2 x 73 GB harddrives.
 [...]

CG> With the two factory installed drives attached the system will not
CG> boot from the install CD.  If the second drive is disconnected the
CG> system can be installed, but again will not boot if the second drive
CG> is connected.  The system is running 4.9-RC with an SMP kernel. 4.8
CG> gave the same results.

FWIW, I just set up a 1750 dual proc with a dell PERC4 RAID card and
two mirrored disks with zero problems using a 4.9-RELEASE CD.

Did you run the Dell hardware diagnostics?

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