topic Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

Colin CDUB White — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:48:19 GMT

I'm trying to install 2008 r2 standard on a DL 180 g6.

Post initialization; The P410 controller shows "Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline" and I unable to install the OS on any array or Drive.

Please Help.

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

Michael A. McKenney — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:57:31 GMT

Boot the server. Go into the controller at post and see what the issue is. Did you install the correct drivers starting 2008 R2 to see the controlelr. Does you server fully support 2008 R2? Do you have the latest firmware?

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

Colin CDUB White — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:11:14 GMT

Thx for the reply Michael. to answer your questions.

issue at post is "Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline" Diagnostics yield nothing useful to me or HP support.

Server is Brand spanking new DL180 G6 it had better support 2008 r2...

Firmware attempts
v3.52 on the p410 = no joy
v2.50 on the p410 = no joy
v3.66b on the p410 = no joy

Anguished cries for help.
12+ hours working with HP support = absolutely no joy, nothing but circles, poor solutions and grief.

Own initiative with a bit of Luck.
New p410 card w v1.66 = happiness.

It's either an issue with the newer firmware or just a bunk card, everything else worked on the card just wouldn't boot. HP support has no idea why it didn't work.

Case closed.

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

TanzaniaXP — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:49:35 GMT

I was stuck with the same error for three days on HP Proliant DL380 G5, I feel that this solution might work for most of HP servers.

Please, take few steps to deal with this..

1- Press F10 and select option 3; Diagnostic Utility

Then select; Boot Disk Test

~~~If the results is Boot disk status-fail

Boot disk Ready-Fail

Verify Boot Sector; Fail

***You have a HD, OS installed, but why fail???? Boot disk is not selected on the BIOS !!!

Then follow me on the next step, but if all pass, the next step will not work for you !!

2-Restart the computer and wait till you see; "Press F8 to run option ROM configuration for Array utility"

3-Press F8, you will see the Main Menu, Select the last option "Select Boot Volume"

~~~~~ Most of the time, it will be on Direct attached storage, on the first logicar drive 01

save settings and restart your server !!

_______________you will be smiling again !!___________________________________________

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

kingbeard — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:28:22 GMT

Hi,

I have exactly this problem on my DL380, ie. it wont boot from disk.

The problem is that the p400 driver/firmware (7.24) does NOT have the boot option in the menu.

It simply has three entries Creat, View, Delete Logical drives. The fourth entry where you can set the boot drive is missing!!

Any ideas?

I thought about downgrading the firmware, but need a working system to load the driver.

Cheers,

Mark

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

Wahll — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:56:26 GMT

Hi Mark

You can use the Offlive Array Configuration Utility (ISO) to configure boot drive in p400/p400i array controller.

regards,

László

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

Sirajul_Haque — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:05:19 GMT

Hi,

if you wish to have more information about this rror, you may check the below said link

Solved: “Boot Logical Drive is configured but is Missing or Offline” on HP Proliant Server

This may help you

cheers

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

zeroagemain — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:24:52 GMT

Thanks.

The solution in the link posted above worked for us.

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

50chickens — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:14:07 GMT

None of these things worked for me. i had been moving drives around on my server when i started receiving this message and then my G5/P400i would not boot into any OS.

i ran the smart storage administrator diagnostics and found the Primary Boot Lun was set to ' (as in, a single quote). The only way i found was in the command line version of acu to reset the boot volume.

controller slot=0 ld modify bootvolume=none

After i did this the error went away and my server was able to boot again.

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

moored99 — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 08:17:10 GMT

@50chickens wrote:
None of these things worked for me. i had been moving drives around on my server when i started receiving this message and then my G5/P400i would not boot into any OS.

i ran the smart storage administrator diagnostics and found the Primary Boot Lun was set to ' (as in, a single quote). The only way i found was in the command line version of acu to reset the boot volume.

controller slot=0 ld modify bootvolume=none

After i did this the error went away and my server was able to boot again.

I to ran the off line ACU and this fixed my problem look for hpacuoffline-9.40-12.0-x86.zip (102 MB) (2013 version) in google this file contains an ISO burn to disk.

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

DeVisdude — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 15:40:33 GMT

It worked for me too, except the sentence was a bit different for me: controller slot=1 logicaldrive 1 modify bootvolume=none

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

HOSSEIN TAVAKOLI — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:46:33 GMT

I Did it and its working Now :-)

below is the Steps:

1:start the computer and wait till you see; "Press F8 to run option ROM configuration for Array utility"

2-Press F8, you will see the Main Menu, Select the last option "Select Boot Volume"

3:Select in Direct attached storage,

4:if you see first logicar drive 01 select it .

5:Press F8 To save Logical Drive 01 as Boot Volume.

6:Press F8 to Exit and start with New Boot Volum.

Good Luck!

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

rianui — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:09:27 GMT

Hossein, you are the best!

You saved me hours of trouble :-)

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

A.Maksimov — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:40:33 GMT

Try HP Offline Smart Storage Administrator and "Set Bottable Logical Drive/Volume" option

~~HP Smart Array P400i — Boot Logical Drive is configured but is Missing or Offline~~

[Moderator edit: The above link is no longer valid. You may also refer to https://support.hpe.com/]

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

BG1017 — Wed, 28 May 2014 14:19:10 GMT

This works. Thank you for the helpful information. I am trying to get things done before vacation.

You made my life easier this week!

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

KevinK — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:35:45 GMT

Thank you Hossein. After motherboard replacement, I had the "Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline" error and your steps resolved the issue. Server can boot the OS now!

Re: Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

aby1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:38:24 GMT

Had same problem, now solved.

Hp Proliant DL380 G6 Controller P410i firmware ver. 2.0

Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline , and did not have the option to select boot volume in the "controller bios"

This worked for me :

Download "HP ProLiant Offline Array Configuration Utility" iso file and made a boot CD, there i could set the boot volume for the disks and i install win and boot from the disks, updatet my p410I controller to ver. 6.64 and now i have the options in the controller bios to select boot volume.

https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/softwaredetails?softwareId=MTX_3c888073127c4c65b7bd8559eb&tab=releaseNotes

/aby

[Moderator edit: Updated the link.]