Installed but wont boot on Dell R210 II Bare Metal

Question

Have tried installing a few times and always get "no boot device available" after reboot of install. 
 No errors during the install. Completes successfully. 
 Confirmed its writing SOMETHING to the drive as I have formated it with ext4, reinstalled and gone back to check it with gparted and it shows the entire disk as unallocated. 
 Are there any logs I can look at during the install? 
 I have tried an MBR repair but it is saying no partitions are on the drive.

JD MaC · Answer

I had the same issue on my R210 II. The issue appears to have something to do with the SAS disk or the controller. It's just a boot, the device works fine once booted. 
 I used the workaround in this thread to get it booting. The short version: use Easy2boot to create a USB boot drive. You configure the boot drive to boot from the hard drive by default. That drive provides a bootloader, then boots XG from the hard drive like it normally would. You have to hang a usb drive off the server, but it works perfectly once you get it setup. 
 Steps I used: 
 
 Install XG on the hard drive as usual 
 Create the boot drive by the instructions on the Easy2boot site 
 Config the R210 BIOS to boot from USB (remove all other options as the R210 gets flakey with USB boot sometimes) 
 Boot the USB and modify the options to boot the hard drive by default after a timeout
 
 Don't mess with manually editing files as explained on the Easy2boot web site, the site layout and docs are pretty rough. You can do everything needed in the menus after it's booted.

Boot and configure XG normally

rfcat_vk · Answer

Hi, 
 any security device worths its name or money will do a full format of all disks. The UTM does as well, that is why you only assign about 120gb or so for a home system. 
 For systems that do not install on bare metal I use VM and then do an install. It is not a Sophos issue to fix the install on 3rd party hardware but a user issue. Sophos does not guarantee installation on any hardware other than its own 
 Ian