1850R won't boot SmartStart 5.5 or floppy drive

[Phil.Howell]

Why don't you make a dos boot cd and include the array controller and scsi drivers from
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=257743&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=254604&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=14
alternatively a boot cd of the vintage of redhat 7 may work?

[rdarlin2]

Phil - you are brilliant!

While I can't boot from floppy (hence this posting)... I can try and take the SCU diskettes and make a bootable CD - no SS executable to fail on. This at least may get me a clear configuration... if this works I can eiher fix the boot order or do the array config on CD as well. Always assuming the CD boot problem I have is due to the CD not running the smartstart executable. (It did run the UBUNTU install CD).

Will adv.

[rdarlin2]

Changed CD drive with another from an 1850R - same error. Changed Floppy drive from another 1850R - still not bootable.

In fact, I put disk 1 of the SCU set of 4 onto a bootable CD, and was able to set the boot order to force boot from A: first. The floppy just isn't being accessed. All cables look good and reseated. Must be a Motherboard problem.

While I was able to get diskette 1 of the SCU set onto a boot cd.. I was unable to get the system to read diskette 2-4 from cd. Does anyone have an idea on how to do that? If I can get the SCU loaded I can get this thing working.

How can I create a CD or CD-set of SCU diskettes?

[Unclown]

Currently I'm mucking round with an 1850R, was trying to get Ubuntu to install on it, but gave up (may have been to do with me trying to get a PCI USB2.0 4-port card/2-Port PCI SATA card and a Reaktek? 8169? (Gigabit) NIC.
Have removed all cards except SATA and NIC).


To your problem:


Look at user diagram on underneath of top cover.
I think it is SW6? (on mobo behind FDD/CD-ROM).
You need to change the jumper (No. 4 IIRC) to ON (Floppy Override) - I found this by accident - couldn't find anything to change floppy boot in BIOS, but this appears to do the trick.

HTH.

P.S: Let me know how you get on with installing Ubuntu - might give it another go...