Moving Disks from one BL20 to another

[Michael Bowden]

I am trying to move disks from 1 BL20 to another BL20. I have moved the server into the appropriate slot and configured it with the old ilo information. I have swapped the drives out of the old unit into the new. When I attempt boot I only get a "monitor is in unsupported text mode" message. Does anyone have the magic keys to getting the server to boot? I suspect there is a dialog somewhere to confirm the disk swap to the bios.
Thanks
Mike

[sandeep_raman]

Hello Mike,

Afaik, its not the disk swap that could cause this.
Are both the server identical in terms of :

1.Memory
2.Processor
3.Ethernet cards
4.Pci cards

SRH

[Steven Clementi]

Michael:

Does the server POST without the drives in it?

I don't think the drives would cause the server not to post since the drives are not even initialized until the Smart array bios is loaded.

Since the drives are from a similar server (or same), then trhere should be no dialog to confirm a swap.


It soulds nlike you are not even getting the server to POST which if you were to get a dialog to cofirm the swap... it would be after initial POST.


Steven