Proliant 1500 - Mandrake Linux

[Ed Felton_1]

Had a 1500 that I'd installed Mandrake on. The 2.1G boot disk died on it, and I have since replaced that drive. Can't get the machine to boot, can't get software to see the new drive.

Diagnostics for the 1500 see and test the drive, no errors found, after several iterations.

I'm missing something Obvious here, aren't I?

-Ed

Ed.Felton@technologist.com

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
I hope, you tried to boot from CD.
Did you check the BIOS for boot options ?
If you have SCSI, you must tell your CDROM to boot from sector zero ( btw on scsi your cdrom should then be ID 0 ).
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

at what stage does it boot to?
Are you getting the kernel up?
You may have to specify kernel options for the replacement drive and/or recompile kernel to support new disk.

Later,
Bill

[Ed Felton_1]

Didn't have to do anything the first time I installed.. the 2.1G scsi drive was formatted for win98, and mandrake installed with a boot floppyu with no problem.

Problem at present is that drives are detected by bios, and but the replacement drive is not formatted.. and so I'm trying to get around all of this... Got a DOS bootable cd with appropriate drivers, it claims to see the drives, but then FDISK can't see the drives.

?? I know I'm missing something simple, and obvious.

[Ed Felton_1]

Alex:

Proliant 1500 has hard wired SCSI addresses in the backplane, (0-4 in the hot swap chassis) and scsi CD comes up as six. Don't know if there's a way to re-assign the drive numbers.

[Ed Felton_1]

Ok, got system up and working, until I tried to get the Dual processor card to boot. It loses it's mind, something about not finding the root partition.

The only thing I'm doing is pulling the single-proc card, and installing the dual-proc card, and getting the EISA bios happy with it... the kernel I'm running is SMP compliant, so I was of the opinion that it should just up and run...
No such luck. Also, trying to re-install with the dual processor card is a no-go, for similar reasons. Anyone gotten this kinda config to work?