Compaq Configuration - DL380
30 September 2007, 12:47 PM
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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
You will need the floppy disk bios disks then to boot up from those and change the boot order
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30 September 2007, 01:29 PM
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30 September 2007, 05:08 PM
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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
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
30 September 2007, 09:02 PM
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"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!
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!
30 September 2007, 10:28 PM
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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.
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.
30 September 2007, 11:23 PM
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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
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
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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
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
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