LH Pro

[Nathan Norris]

I have a LH Pro and I am trying to install Linux from an burned CD. The CD-Rom that was in the LH was an old SCSI that could not read the CD. I removed the old SCSI and install a new HP IDE CD-Rom. Now the LH can read the CD but will not boot from the CD. I have updated the BIOS to the lasted version and ran the config to see if I was missing something. Does anyone know why the LH can't see the IDE CR-Rom as a boot device?

[Leonard Davison]

Nathan...

On the older LH's, boot order is setup in EISA config (from HP NS Navigator or HD Partition.). The lowest "address" is the primary boot. SCSI A by default has the lowest, change the IDE controller to an address lower than SCSI A...

[Nathan Norris]

I have the ESIA config disk and when I go into the configuration I don't see any options for an IDE boot device order nor a way to move anything from a higher to lower setting. I do see the ablilty to move cards or set that the PCI has priorty over the SCSI devices. But changing does nothing. I still can boot up into DOS and see the CD-Rom drive but can't boot up from a CD to install my OS.

[Leonard Davison]

Nathan...

http://h200007.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpn11786/lpn11786.pdf

Check this PDF document and search for BOOT.

This should illuminate where the IDE bus fits/relates to a PCI bus.

[Nathan Norris]

Thank you for the PDF, I have read what it has to say and the way I read things is that by default the BIOS is looking for a CDRom to boot from. Also the way this reads it looks like they are looking to have the SCSI CD-Rom and Not an IDE CD-Rom. The reason I has to remove the SCSI CD-Rom was it could not read the Linux CD becuase it was a burned CD, and I don't have any newer SCSI CD-Rom's but a lot of IDE Drives. I was thinking it might have something to do the settings of the CD-Rom.

As for the settings there is nothing on A or B and the RAID card is in slot 9.

[Leonard Davison]

Nathan...

According to the PDF:

The Boot Device Ordering submenu contains the following options:
· Floppy check: Enables or disables verification of flexible disk drive type during boot
Summary screen: Enables or disables display of a screen of system configuration information.
Boot Device Priority: Allows you to rearrange the following default order in which drive types
are searched for the operating system:
CD-ROM drive with bootable CD-ROM
Flexible Disk with bootable flexible disk

Hard Drive
Hard Drive Priority: Allows you to rearrange the order in which hard disk drives are searched
for the operating system. All hard disk drives in the system are listed, as well as any bootable
ISA board.
Boot order for PCI controllers is determined by slot location. The system searches for a
bootable device in the following order:
1. IDE CD-ROM drive with a bootable CD-ROM.
2. Flexible disk drive with a bootable flexible disk.
3. Embedded SCSI controller or embedded DAC.
4. PCI boards in slots in the following order: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

My only other guess would be, Is the CD-ROM configured as Master, Slave or Cable Select. It should be Cable Select.

[Nathan Norris]

Well I went back and check to make sure I was not missing something but I don't have any of those choices in the menu of options.

At the top of the program for the configuration menu it says
HP NetServer LH Pro System Board CFG 1.30

Where is says Boot Device the only choice I have is PCI over Embedded or Embedded over PCI. Is there a way to update the choices?

[Leonard Davison]

Nathan...

O.K..I guess we will have to assume that either the BIOS is older than the manuals or it is only detecting what it can actually see....

My only other guess would be, Is the new ide CD-ROM configured as Master, Slave or Cable Select? It should be Cable Select.