Proliant DL380 Requires Intervention to Reboot

[James Sanchez]

When I boot this server, it comes to "Hit F1 to continue, hit F10 for system partition utilities." It doesn't ever time-out of this, and stops here even on a soft reboot.

When I hit F10 it comes back with a quick message about not finding the partition utilities.

I won't have physical access to the box after it is setup and it would be a huge pain if I had to visit the box everytime I needed to reboot.

If anybody knows how I can bypass this that would be a HUGE help!

[Oleg Koroz · Accepted solution]

If you never installed System Partition and just use cached settings try to run SP19619 when it loads try to continue load from floppy diskette and when you see 4 option and first System Configuration press Ctrl + A than move to next screen Configure Hardware â Review and Modify â scroll down find F1 Option and Disable â save and exit.
Once again F10 â access to System Settings is a small size partition ~34MB that keep all your setting and Hardware info â it's recommended to have one installed before O/S Loaded.

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/13227.html

[Terry Hutchings]

What kind of POST error are you getting? Once this problem is taken care of you can get rid of this message.

This is what I would normally recommend doing to resolve the problem.

[James Sanchez]

I only have one of the power supplies plugged in, so I get a POST error about the failed power supple. I didn't think it would matter while I'm doing the O/S install.

[James Sanchez]

I plugged in both power supplies and the boot process runs all the way to the O/S.

Thanks!!