Booting IBM RAID Support CD

[dcs97]

We have a Netfinity 5600 that runs a serveraid 4L (which was given to us without any of the CD's). I have downloaded the Raid Support CD (v7) from IBM and burned it to CD. I have reconfigured the RAID back to factory so all drives are ready but I can't get the system to boot from the CD. I have tryed the CD in other machines, it works fine, also tryed know good cdroms in the Netfinity. I don't have any experience with the Netfinity machines and would deeply appreciate some ideas/advise.

Thanks.

 

[catorze]

1. Is there at least 128MB RAM, but less than 2GB RAM installed in the server? If not, get within these limits.

2. Is the CD-ROM configured as a boot device? F1 > Start Options...

 

[dcs97]

Thanks for the response. Yes to both, has 128 mb ram and I have tryed setting the CD-ROM as both the 1st and 2nd boot device, same thing. It will boot from FDD (WIN98SE).
One thing that I forgot to mention is that I can start the system with the WIN2K Server CD, of course it will not find a HDD though. I was able to create the FDD driver for the RAID CONTROLLER and WIN2K Server found the RAID controller using that driver(unconfigured of course).
Is it possible that the CD-ROM included with the Netfinity machine has a problem with burnt CD's? If so, is the CD-ROM specialized so that you have to use the IBM FRU# to replace it?
As I said, I am able to boot any of a number of different machines with the CD I burnt. I don't have much experience with these machines and am not in a real rush to get this one going but I do appreciate any suggestions that y'all might have.

 

[mauricemcse]

Greetings:

Just went through the same thing with my Netfinty 5000 servers. Don't know if this is coincidental but the ServeRAID 7 CD would not work until a number of driver, BIOS and firmware upgrades were made. Also, please know that a mismatch of driver versions is likely to make a drive indicate that it is defunct. I've just been through this as well.

 

[dcs97]

Once again, thanks for the tips! I did get it to work by using a CD Burner as the boot device, everthing went perfect after that. I have no logical explanation as to why that would be the case but ... it works. I even went back and tryed again with a brand new CD-ROM, would not boot, yet I could connect that same CD-ROM to any other PC and it would boot fine. After I got the RAID configured I was able to boot WIN2K SBS from the CD-ROM that came with the server. By the way, this is a great forum, has a lot of valuable info. Thanks again.