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тАО02-14-2009 10:35 AM
тАО02-14-2009 10:35 AM
1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
Trying to go to system partition when hitting F10 didn't work, system partition not found.
I went ahead and installed UBUNTU, and partioned the two logical drives that already existed - install went fine until I atempted to reboot without the ubuntu cd. Result=unable to find boot disk.
Decided issue was with system partition, since I could access the array drives successfully.
Smartstart 5.5 would boot to initial .BMP image, drive lights would blink a few times, cd would blink a few times - then everything would stop.
Decided that issue was a bad burn of SS - reburned at 4x but same problem. reseated all cables.
Went to motherboard switches and turned #6 on - rebooted through array config (mem and proc b4 that) - powered down and returned #6 to off. Rebooted and array still sees 2 logical drives but I get following message:
177-Configuration Not Complete
Controller Order Not Setup
Scanning for SCSI Devices... no scsi devices detected
Press "F1" to continue and F10 for system partition utilities.
F10 still doesn't work (no surprise)
F1 with SS IN CD does same thing stopping 15 secs or so after image.
F1 with no CD - gets msg:
Error Booting System Partition
Boot Config diskett from A:
So since I can't get the SS CD to work, I am down to using the SCU diskettes... BUT I can't get the floppy to respond (which has never been bootable).
Can someone help me?
1) unable to boot from floppy.
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тАО02-14-2009 11:44 PM
тАО02-14-2009 11:44 PM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
You could also try "erase nvram"
Do you have an ILO port? If so you sould run smartstart from a remote source.
Phil
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тАО02-15-2009 04:26 PM
тАО02-15-2009 04:26 PM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
Make sure you've got the latest firmware. I had big issues on one of them a few years ago due to a bad bios version.
It does'nt have ILO. This server is about 10 years old.
I've got a couple here you can have if you want to fly to Melbourne Australia to get them :-)
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тАО02-15-2009 07:09 PM
тАО02-15-2009 07:09 PM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
Since I can't get into the system partition I can't change the configuration and boot order.
Anyone have ideas on getting the SS CD to boot the SS CD fully? Any hardware item that could be affecting the CD drive at the initial start of the SS interface... or the SS program access to the array drives at that point?
I'm willing to try just about anything.
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тАО02-15-2009 07:27 PM
тАО02-15-2009 07:27 PM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
Did you verify the MD5 of the smart start download before you burnt it?
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тАО02-16-2009 03:25 AM
тАО02-16-2009 03:25 AM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
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тАО02-16-2009 03:28 AM
тАО02-16-2009 03:28 AM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
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тАО02-16-2009 03:54 AM
тАО02-16-2009 03:54 AM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
That is assuming you can get the MD5 from HP's website for a download this old.
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тАО02-16-2009 07:33 AM
тАО02-16-2009 07:33 AM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
There was a problem with the fw for the TEAC CD drives. Upgrade if needed.
(Choose Win NT 4.0, to find it)
Here's the direct link:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=254604&prodNameId=257743&swEnvOID=24&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I9026
Also check out the available tools: ACU, SCU etc is available on floppy, at least if you choose Win NT 4.0 (If you get the floppy to work)
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тАО02-16-2009 03:41 PM
тАО02-16-2009 03:41 PM
Re: 1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive
gregersenj: I used the 'clear NVRAM' switch #6 referenced above - it didn't completely clear configuration, as the array still sees the 2 logical drives - but it didn't help my problem with not being able to boot from Floppy (so I could use the SCU diskettes). Thanks for the link to the CD ROmpak - will try it if I can ever get the floppy to be recognized.