ML110 G3 - load RAID driver without floppy

[Stephen Gultig]

After a second attempt to set up this server and going through all the pain AGAIN I would like to encourage readers to purchase the external ext HP FDD.

The slipstreaming option may work but as was pointed out in the previous post, it's not just the slipstreaming but also creating the bootable CD.

If you're looking for a technical challenge and you have the time, go ahead and slipstream. If you have to do this regularly just get the ext HP FDD!

[Francisco Hornos]

Thank You to adrian (above) Slipstreaming drivers to the 1st CD of Windows 2003 is the solution.

IT REALLY WORKS no USB pens no USB floppy.


http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=346


sw needed : notepad, isobuster & nero6

[Shane Hollis]

We used the slip streaming method to create our CD. Unfortunately the drivers supplied by HP on the CD were not correct and we ended up with the blue screen of death at thepoint the server rebooted and tried to load up.

We are burning CDs with new drivers and trying toget past the driver issue. We found a post saying there are two different versions oSATA raid built into the G3, one labled as HP raid but adaptec based underneath and the other labled as an adaptec raid system. It is a known issue there are driver issues with the supplied CDs for the ML 110.

At present our option is to turn our box into a non-raid device, load the OS, back up the OS using QT Parted live CD and then play it back onto the newly created raid.

Be warened, after creating the raid make sure you have run the tool from bios to synch the drives as we loaded an image onto one raid drive using QT Parted nad had huge problems until we got the RAID tool to synch the drives. It doesn't alwayds happen automagically. If the Device volume status states it is anything but OPTIMAL then make sure you synch the disks using the tool to do so.

[Stephen Gultig]

Please, if you are reading this for the FIRST time, STOP, go and get an HP ext FDD and save yourself the time and frustration invloved in setting up a slipstreamed bootable CD.

On the drivers, it is good practise to check for and download any new BIOS and/or drivers when installing a new mobo these days. Things just change too quickly.

[Luis Anderson Rivera]

Hello everybody I FOUND THE SOLUTION OF THIS PROBLEM !!!!. Following the Nlite solution GOD blease this software !!!! the solution work great and thanks everybody

[Justin Blocksom]

nLite integrated CD is the way to go! This worked for the same issue on a HP DL 320p G5. FYI, there is no option to set a USB as a bootable floppy in the BIOS for this model, as was listed above on this and other threads. When using a 3d party external USB floppy drive with the Adaptec drivers loaded on it, the OS setup would take the drivers for the Adaptec embedded RAID at the first prompt, but would reprompt for the drivers on the A: drive halfway through the OS install and would not pick up the driver again. (seemed to have lost all connection to the A: drive or somehow could not connect to the driver again.)

Embedding the driver and creating a custom OS install ISO (to then make a bootable CD from via Roxio or other CD burning software) using nLite was very easy to do and worked fantastic. Don't waste your time on floppy disks, bootable USB floppys, editing the BIOS, or attaching internal floppy drives. Time is money and this saves both!

[RMo. .]

Way to bring up a 3 year old thread lol! But yeah, these days nLite is the way to go.