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How to boot a proliant dl380 g1
There is no X server and no window manager on Ubuntu server. It is a server! If you want a user interface and you don't want to manually install X and a window manager i would suggest to install Ubuntu for workstations instead. But then you will need to manually install server features. -
How to boot a proliant dl380 g1
Install Ubuntu in expert mode, don't take the simple wizard. You will do it a thousand time before getting the right parameters but somewhere it will propose various boot options and boot loader options. -
How to boot a proliant dl380 g1
The boot sequence was FLOPPY -> CD -> HDD and it was indeed going through this sequence as i could see the LEDs flash. I have found out that GRUB does not work on this machine but LILO does. So i reinstalled everything again and forced LILO in various locations until i got the machine to boot... -
How to boot a proliant dl380 g1
btw, i have read a lot of forums that talk about this but none has ever provided a solution. -
How to boot a proliant dl380 g1
Hi all, i can successfully configure (smartstart 5.5) a proliant sl380 g1 and i can successfully install linux ubuntu server from the CD but it never boots (i get a non-bootable disk error). How can i make the server boot the linux? Grub is installed but does not react. I have the impression...
