DSS not booting

We have been evaluating DSS on two older machines for the 60 days to test functionality within our environment.

We repurposed one of our newer machines for testing as it will be the final production server. However the machine does not boot from the cdrom. neither 32 bit or 64bit modes work. When we boot it states that it's loading and then drops to a linux command prompt in ash. I can read the init.log /var/log/init.log

it states

Searching for bootparam: nocd
Searching for bootparam: nohd
Searching for bootparam: noauto
Searching for bootparam: nocd
Searching for bootparam: nohd
Searching for bootparam: nocd
Searching for bootparam: nohd
Searching for bootparam: nocd
Searching for bootparam: nohd
Searching for bootparam: nocd
Searching for bootparam: nohd

followed by a failure message and please press CTRL-ALT-DEL


Box Spec.
SuperMicro x7dbe
6gb ram
3ware 9550SXU 8 disk array, raid 50
8 hitachi drives from 3ware supported list

what version firmware do you have on the SuperMicro x7dbe?

Its running bios rev 2.1a