Installation on HP Proliant via iLO -> "Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist"

[Palle Girgensohn]

The fix is to use options -> rescan devices in the installer. After that, 
when selecting CDROM as media type, the installer lets you chose between 
cd0 and acd0. Select the cd0 device instead of acd0 to use the virtual cd 
drive.

I recon the problem occurs because of confusion between the physical cd 
drive and the virtual ditto.

Cheers,
Palle

--On 22 april 2010 21.19.43 +0200 Ewald Jenisch <a at jenisch.at> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant
> server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD
> 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1.
>
> Since the server is remote installation is to be done via the virtual
> CD/DVD of the iLO management.
>
> The install process runs smooth up to the point where the install
> process finishes formatting then I get the following error:
>
> "Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5)"
>
> and installation can't proceed.
>
> Interestingly that the installation runs from CD up to this point
> without any problem whatsoever. This can't be a problem with the
> "CD/DVD" since I've mounted the ISO-image via a virtual drive.
>
> I've already tried downloading the ISO again - same result.
>
> Likewise I tried with the CD-image instead of the DVD-image - same result
> :-(
>
> So here are my questions:
>
> o) has anybody seen symptoms like this on a HP proliant server when
> installation is done via the "virtual CD/DVD"-drive?
>
> o) Any cure against this?
>
> Thanks much in advance for any clue,
> -ewald
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