I can't boot Smart Start on Proliant 6400r after flashing bios

[PJ_8]

Hey,

I have a Proliant 6400r server. I cannot seem to be able to boot off of the cd-rom drive after flashing the bios. I had to make the bios disks, and I changed the boot order to CD:, A:, C:, but it seems to be skipping over the cd-rom drive.

The cd-rom drive was working before. The light flickers on when I reboot and I can hear the cd spinning. Any idea? I'm stumped.

[Sunil Jerath]

Hello PJ,
Please try clearing NVRAM via SW1(switch #6) which is on the Peripheral board. By default the switch 6 of SW1 is set to 'Off' position. Turn it to on and then reboot the server. Once it goes through the POST then power down bring the switch 6 back to 'Off'. This should reset the configuration. You can configure the server afterwards this process. If the CDROM is bad then that would be another story.

Regards,

[Sunil Jerath]

Hello PJ,
Please try clearing NVRAM via SW1(switch #6) which is on the Peripheral board. By default the switch 6 of SW1 is set to 'Off' position. Turn it to on and then reboot the server. Once it goes through the POST then power down bring the switch 6 back to 'Off'. This should reset the configuration. You can configure the server afterwards this process. If the CDROM is bad then that would be another story.

Regards,