I have a dell poweredge 2600 configured with a hardware raid 5. I have gone to dells website and downloaded the correct drivers and put them on a floppy. I have used the floppy to get server2k3 to begin installing, but when I reach the format drive part of the install, it begins working and then just hangs there. I've been staring at the yellow bar on the blue screen for what seems like ever. I have never installed server 2k3 on a raid 5 before and I'm not sure that I've done it right. Is there something that I am missing here? The setup is obviously not proceding past this part and this is the third time that I've tried. I would appreciate some help. Thanks.
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations sizbut on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Trying to install server 2003 on a hardware raid 5
- Thread starter ITbum
- Start date
Download the server assistant from Dell so that you boot from that CD and then choose your OS going through the assisted install and when it's ready, it will prompt you for the OS cd(s). Also before you install, update all available firmware (system board, controller card, nic, etc...)
If this still hangs, try another set of media cd's... if even after that, you still hang, then more than likely, you have a hardware issue. The RAID5 aspect doesn't make any difference since it's hardware, as far as the OS is concerned, the only thing it looks for is the correct driver for the controller. After that, it's just 1 hard drive (logical) to the OS.
If this still hangs, try another set of media cd's... if even after that, you still hang, then more than likely, you have a hardware issue. The RAID5 aspect doesn't make any difference since it's hardware, as far as the OS is concerned, the only thing it looks for is the correct driver for the controller. After that, it's just 1 hard drive (logical) to the OS.
- Thread starter
- #3
LawnBoy
MIS
- Mar 12, 2003
- 2,881
If the Server Assistant hangs while booting from CD, this has nothing to do with the HD.
I'd suspect RAM.
"We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes
I'd suspect RAM.
"We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes
- Thread starter
- #6
Slowing the RAM down? What are you doing, overclocking server hardware?
You probably have bad RAM...so I'd start by taking RAM out until I found the potentially bad RAM module.
I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
You probably have bad RAM...so I'd start by taking RAM out until I found the potentially bad RAM module.
I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question
