topic DL-585 and Windows 2008 SBS in Operating System - Microsoft

DL-585 and Windows 2008 SBS

FreedomTech — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:36:21 GMT

I have a spare DL-585 (standard server as far as I know, not a G2 etc). When I try and install Windows 2008 SBS on it I get a blue screen message that multi processor configurations are not supported.

As far as I can tell the most current BIOS revision is installed. Searching this site I see much mention of the G2 servers supporting Win2008 but no mention of the standard ones.

Can anyone give me a definitive answer?

Re: DL-585 and Windows 2008 SBS

Daniel Ebenhöh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:43:52 GMT

Hi,

perhaps its the same problem like ours:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1389039

Re: DL-585 and Windows 2008 SBS

Daniel Ebenhöh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:01:11 GMT

We have found the answer:
Hi,

I had the same problem.

The solution for my problem was:

-Boot
-Push "F9" to enter BIOS
-"Advanced Options" > "Linux x86_64 HPET Option"
-Disable this Option
-Safe the BIOS Changes (ESC, ESC, F10)

Description of "Linux x86_64 HPET Option"-BIOS entry:
This option modifies the IRQ routing for the HPET Timer to work-around an OS issue that may result in a kernel panic during boot in certain Linux x86_64 (64-bit) OSes.
The following supported OSes are affected:
-RHEL4 u3 x86_64
-RHEL4 u4 x86_64
-SLES9 sp3 x86_64
HP has worked with Linux providers to address this issue in future revisions of these OSes.

As it seems, this option is relevant for W2K8 too...