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Re: Virtual Floppy on Proliant DL380 G5 - iLO2

 
Rosco_1
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Virtual Floppy on Proliant DL380 G5 - iLO2

Hi,

When trying to make a new Proliant G5 boot on a virtual floppy via an image, I noticed that it loads it as the B: drive.

Subsequently when the server boots, it doesn't boot on the V floppy and loads the OS on the C: drive. BIOS settings show the A: drive as 2nd in the boot order but I think since the drive is B: it's being ignored.

There is no A: drive in the server, only a DVD drive but I did build the server with a USB floppy attached which reappears when re-attached when Windows 2003 is loaded.

Can anyone advise how to boot a new ilo2 server with a virtual floppy?

Thanks,
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Rosco_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: Virtual Floppy on Proliant DL380 G5 - iLO2

Update: Foudn that if you have a bootable CD in the DVD drive, it ignored the V floppy even if you don't "hit any key to boot from DVD".

I reckon only way around this situation is by moving the floppy boot sequence above the DVD like it was before it was "improved".

RaMpaNTe
Trusted Contributor

Re: Virtual Floppy on Proliant DL380 G5 - iLO2

Hi, the server will try to boo first from the DVD, CD ROM, before trying to boot from the VFloppy, so as a solution you can take the CD out of the server when you want to boot from the VFloppy.


RaMpaNTe
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