Dell C1100 – Partitioning for RAID 10

In the Rocky Linux installer, choose custom partitioning.  First, create a /boot mount point that is 2GiB in size.  Set device type to RAID and RAID Level to RAID1.  Next, create / as an LVM partition on a RAID 10 pool.  Lastly, create the SWAP area as an LVM partition on the RAID 10 pool.  That's all you need to do. 

Grub will be synced across the four drives.  Thus, if one drive fails, the other drives can still boot Rocky Linux so that the RAID array can be rebuilt.   

Dell c1100 CS24-TY Latest BIOS and BMC Firmware Files

Download the latest BIOS and BMC Firmware Files for the Dell c1100 CS24-TY 1U Server

The file above contains instructions and guides for updating both the BIOS and BMC Firmware to the latest released versions for official Dell c1100 CS24-TY servers and unofficial DCS or Quanta c1100 versions.

For Quanta or DCS servers, follow this guide:

https://johannes.skartland.net/2015/11/flashing-c1100/  | Archived Version

You can also flash the BMC to reset it back to factory default settings directly on Linux using the following files:

Linux socflash Package

You'll need to install the x86 package of libc before it will work:

sudo yum install glibc.i686

Then just run

bash socflash.sh

The default login and password for a freshly flashed bmc is root for the login and root for the password ( root:root )