PERC 6 won't boot

[iolair]

I've been trying to get a PE 2950 to boot. I've been spending the last few days in the BIOS <Ctrl><R> utility trying to get this to work. When I boot the system, I get a no boot device found message. I've created the virtual disk, initialized the virtual disk (several times, in fact), and even run a consistency check. The LSI bios utility says all three disks are online and functioning. The only thing I see in the bios that looks weird to me is there is no space available on any of the hard drives (which I sort of expected, since it's a virtual disk) and the virtual disk shows 557GB. I'm using RAID 5. I bought 3 - 300 GB drives for this file server. Anyone know what I've overlooked in the BIOS setup? Just the one controller, and only those three disks on it. I tried to run the Dell server setup disk, it doesn't find any boot device. Running Windows Server 2008 setup also finds no boot device. In the server setup <F2>, the controller is enabled. Thanks.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[technome]

With Win 2008, there is no need to install a driver by F2, picks up a driver natively, so it should work. In the raid bios setup, there is a choice of where to boot from, same, I believe in the machine bios, likely one of these is not set correctly. Forget the Dell setup disk, setup directly with the Win 2008 disk.



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[iolair]

Thanks.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[iolair]

An update - re-installing 2008 worked, no problem. I guess Dell doesn't want you to install 2003. <g>

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[technome]

Perhaps you ran into an issue with Win2003 I had. After the setup starts, hitting F2, I needed to use the Win 2000 raid driver to get the install to complete. Once it booted up, I updates to the Win2003 raid driver.
Anyway, Win 2008 is better then 2003, glad you got it going.
Any more issues, you can also try the Dell server forum

http://en.community.dell.com/topics/home.aspx?tid=66854d95-a103-4abe-954f-dfc770cdc3d7

........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

 

[iolair]

Thanks again. Now, to get Anti-Virus ordered that'll run on 2008. Shouldn't be a problem.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[technome]

Also look into OpenDns, nice web filter for free if you can live with the filtering designated to all users, not selective groups


........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm