topic Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present in BladeSystem - General

BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

Grooper — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:40:44 GMT

BL460c G6, newest BIOS, with EMulex HBA on EVA 8100. Installed OS is Win2k3 32bit.
Boot from SAN works fine, when there are no local disks in the blade.
With local disks present, initializing Smart Array controller takes an unusual long time and the boot procedure hangs after showing
"Attempting to boot from C:"
After that any RAID configuration on the controller are lost.

Any idea, anyone?

Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

TTr — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:01:58 GMT

Check out the below thread and see if your blade has a similar setup in the bios to select FC HBA as the boot controller.
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1354557

Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

Grooper — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:31:55 GMT

I already checked Boot Order and Boot Controller Order in RBSU. Twice.

Could this be an IRQ sharing issue?

Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

Dhanesh Amirthalingam — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:47:40 GMT

hi

did you tried to re present the lune once
again
which slot did you installed that HPA card
please let me know

Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

Grooper — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:41:08 GMT

I cross-checked the BIOS Setup with another Blade, which is working, but no avail.
BTW: Mezzanine Card is in Position 2 because the FC switches are in interconnect slots 5+6.

Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

TTr — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:06:08 GMT

> I cross-checked the BIOS Setup with another Blade, which is working

Check if there are any firmware differences in the blade (bios) and the raid controller.

Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

Grooper — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:57:42 GMT

I opened a Case at HP Support and still waiting for response from L2.

I'll keep you posted.

Re: BL 460c G6 - SAN boot failed when local disk present

Grooper — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:08:18 GMT

HP support replaced all the Emulex-HBAs by Qlogic.