DL385 G5p hanging after firmware update

[dlcarrol]

Hi all,

In building a base image for a group of DL385 G5P servers, I made sure they would all POST and then selected one to start with. After running the firmware CD (v9.3) in automated mode, it now takes 25 minutes to post (green LEDs all the time, but a black screen for 25 minutes). It then tells me that iLO 2 "configuration is temporarily unavailable. (1)", and then can't run the Firmware CD again.

I've tried putting the firmware CD on a USB key, but few live CDs can reliably boot, hanging at some point or another.

The iLO error concerns me most-- can it affect everything else  if it's bad? Is there a failsafe boot for the Firmware Maintenance CD? It hangs just after the ACPI daemon, if I recall.