Starting drivers. Please wait, this may ... take HOURS!!!

[WOPS]

Hi

My DL380 Gen9 take hours on point "Starting drivers. Please wait, this may ..." to boot up or go on System Utilities.

BIOS Version: P89 v.2.72
iLO4: 2.62
Smart Array P440ar: 5.04, with local disks no SAN

There is no MicroSD Kit installed.

I didn't find any solution on internet, I also set the BIOS to default still problem exist.

Any ideas?

Regards, Francesco

[rmay_bk]

Any PCIe cards?  NICs?  Disk controllers?  Try pulling them out and see if the behavior changes.

[opoplawski]

I'm seeing similar, and apparently so are others: https://www.running-system.com/hpe-starting-drivers-please-wait-bios-p89-v2-40-spp-201704/

[Momo55]

I am having this problem for a while. 

Do we have a solution to this problem?

[Jagger_Systems]

Upgrading to ilo4_276.bin resolved this for us.

Many thanks

[nthlevel]

updating to the latest ilo didnt work for me, still takes hours to boot.

Hours starting drivers and then further more time waiting for power and thermal calibration

[BRE]

Same Problem here - update iLO to 2.76 did'n solve the problem - any further solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Beat

[Jagger_Systems]

Have you tried powering off the blade, removing the blade from the chassis to reset it completely (i'd give it a minute from doing this), then power it back on?

[kira12]

Hello,

i have this issue with ilo 2.76 and 2.77 The P440ar has 7.00 and the BIOS is 2.76 and the Problem still exist. I try it with a minimal configuration but nothing changed. I have this Problem since a upgrade to 2x v4 CPU. replace against the v3 CPU did not solve the Problem.

Hopefully HPE has an Solution and will share with us...

best regards ré