johnzbesko
Technical User
I recently acquired a surplus Proliant DL380 G2. It has a Lights Out board and six hard drives. I installed Ubuntu. Then, I added a gigabit PCI ethernet card. Upon boot, the smart drive array did not seem to be recognized, ie. the smart drive did not initialize and the system would not boot.
I read manuals, searched online, tried the HP Diagnostic boot CD, etc. and tried different motherboard switch settings. At some point, the smart drive decided to work and I was able to boot. I installed Fedora 6 and the server worked fine.
Then, I tried to change the resolution of xwindows but the screen hung (the server was still working, eg. firewall, file server, web server, etc.) So, I did a cold boot- shut off the server using the power button.
Now the server will not boot again because it doesn't initialize the smart array. What is going on?!
Any suggestions for this frustrating problem are greatly appreciated.
I read manuals, searched online, tried the HP Diagnostic boot CD, etc. and tried different motherboard switch settings. At some point, the smart drive decided to work and I was able to boot. I installed Fedora 6 and the server worked fine.
Then, I tried to change the resolution of xwindows but the screen hung (the server was still working, eg. firewall, file server, web server, etc.) So, I did a cold boot- shut off the server using the power button.
Now the server will not boot again because it doesn't initialize the smart array. What is going on?!
Any suggestions for this frustrating problem are greatly appreciated.