It won't boot from CD instead coming up with a PXE-E61 error

From googling its something to do with lan config?

htf do I get it back to boot from CD?

 

Go into the bios and change the boot order

what generation is it Puff ?

 

should also be an option on boot to select the boot device, usually F12 or ESC cant remember which it is on the 380 though.

 

Ancient! PIII 1Ghz

I can't get the BIOS to come up LOL

 

Right in that case as you didnt come back last night to reply

You will need the floppy disk bios disks then to boot up from those and change the boot order

 

Bugger...

Means I got to go find them on HP site which must score 10/1000 for ease of use, understandibility and simplicity

Do I have any floppy discs?

 

HP Site is easy

 

Software and Drivers - download Compaq System Configuration Utility, 2.58 A

 

Good job my 1850r has a floppy drive as my shuttle doesn't LOL

Format a:

Old memories

 

OK

Now what - it does not boot from floppy

Nor does copious use of esc & F12 achieve anything

 

Hmmm

Not too sure then, a bit extreme but you could plug a network cable in, as it seems to be stuck on booting from the NIC, and setup a PXE boot server with the bios disks as the images

That may or may not work, alternatively have you not got some disks you can put in that are already bootable or at least contain the boot config partition

 

I took the battery out as well as the Lights Out board, dropped the SCSIs on the 4200 (port 2) and we seem to be able to no install the config!

Eureka!

 

Hmm

 

Hmm, what is the Hmm for ?

 

Hmm is for the POS that is that DL380

 

PMSL, I have a Proliant 3000 Dual PII sat in the office, still works well for its age

 

"IT" has decided that it does not want to play...

After I killed BIOS & restarted, it asked for the config diskette (as supplied ta!!) so did all that. We're keeping it simple so W2K. Reboots - can't find NTLDR Lots of faffing about later and I've an IDE CD from another 1850r installed and still nothing. PXE errors still.

The "only" thing that may impinge on it that I can currently think of is that I set up a RAID 1 on the Array then booted without one of the HDDs at some point and now it is "recovering". But surely that can't cause problems?


AS IT HAPPENS, there's another DL380 lurking in the office so I will bring it home and have a go with that!

 

SmartStart is your friend.

Download the latest CD (from the site) and cut a CD.

Boot to it - run system erase and start again

Then install Win2k using the smartstart CD as the boot CD... a HELL of a lot easier.

 

It doesn't boot to SmartStart

Got 5.5 and 7.1 and it won't boot to either...


Or what should be my option in F10 when installing a new OS?

 

Should boot to 5.5 but only if the system bios is set to boot from CD

It wont be supported under 7.1 and will probably say as much if it could boot from that CD

Recovering array shouldnt make a jot of difference to boot order

IIRC from the old Compaq days and Smart **** 5.5 once you start down the install path, SS changes the boot order to be the Raid controller, I wonder if the bios isnt holding the settings anymore, so it is trying to revert back to PXE or floppy disk

Saying that when you did boot of the system config disks, did you create (or in fact did you manage to do it from smart start) a system partition ?

As long as you did a system partition on the hard disks, then you sould always be able to f9 or f12 into the bios to change boot order etc

 

Yes I did manage that - but boot order did not appear to be an option.

Bit worried about the NTLDR bit - lot of CD wizzing round & seemingly hdd activity but no action lol.

Will try other DL later...

 

Can't find NTLDR will be the RAID array being set as the primary (as said above)

Run System Erase (create a diskette) and see what happens - this also completely resets the BIOS as well, and SHOULD set the initial boot to be from the CD