DL380 G3, Issues installing Win2003 using iLO and virtual media

[Scott Pease_4]

Got it working, but not by removing memory or anything else. None of that actually worked, so still never managed to get it working w/Smart Start.

However, I DID find a willing vict...errr... volunteer ;) in the London office that could extract the drivers for the 5x/6x controller to a floppy and put it in the server for me. Once I had that, I was able to just do a bare install of windows 2003, F6 to use the drivers on the floppy, and after that it all worked wonderfully.

The smart start process would have been nice, but in the end, we got the server built and HOPEFULLY have a repeatable process for building 'em remotely. Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions, and I'd still be interested to hear from someone at HP to see if they can reproduce the same errors, or have any idea what the GPF was caused by (we still saw it after removing memory, etc). Oh well...

:)