Proliant 1850r

[Micheal L McComber]

I cant get my server to boot to CD I have downloaded the System Config Utility but still cant get it to boot from Cd. I do have Smart Start 5.2 cd but I cant boot to it. Any ideas ??????
thanks
Micheal

[Terry Hutchings · Accepted solution]

I would recommend clearing NVRAM on the machine. You can do this by opening the machine up, looking at approximately the front edge of the system board near the middle. You should see six switches in the switchbank. Turn switch 6 on, power the server up, turn it back off after the processors and memory are initialized, and turn the switch back off. This should reset it back to the factory defaults: floppy, cd, drive. If it still has a problem with booting from cd, then it's likely a problem with the drive.

[Micheal L McComber]

Thanks for the help did as you said and rebooted and it loaded it booted from the CD and Im loading everything now.

Thanks again
Micheal

[Michael Lashley]

This also works on the Proliant DL360 G1 servers.

Thanks for the post!