G6s won't boot to virtual media through iLO 2?

[BDay]

I'm trying to load our OS from remote through iLO 2 w/Advanced Feature Pack enabled and am having a tough time. No matter what boot order I try in the BIOS the server will not boot from any virtual media.

It just goes through the basic..

Attempting to Boot from CD-ROM
Attempting to Boot from Floppy
Attempting to Boot from Harddrive
Attempting to Boot from Network

...then goes into a reboot loop even though the virtual media applet shows I am connected to the server.

Due to pre-existing security policies I had to change iLO to use port 3000 for the virtual media feature, could this cause a problem?

The one I am currently trying to install on is;

DL360 G6
BIOS P64
iLO 2 1.77 (Adv Feature Pack Licensed)

I'm getting the same behavior on all of the 360s and 380s we just bought.

If I go to the server and put the USB key with smart start on it in the server itself or a DVD of the same smart start image it boots to it just fine.

Thoughts?

[BDay]

FYI.. my desktop is Server 2008 R2 Build 7100 if that matters. It has Java 6U13 installed.

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

what about your firewall setting ???

mikap

[BDay]

Sorry I should have mentioned that. It is disabled.

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

thats ok, actually we dont have any G6 proliants in our datacenter, but i saw some strange issues regarding IE8.

mikap

[BDay]

I was going to start another thread once I got this figured out, but since you brought up IE8 I've so far been unable to use the integrated console as I get no keyboard responses in it so I'm using the java one.

Maybe I need to fire up a trusty XP virtual machine and see how it works with IE7 and go from there. :)

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

yes the XP is in my opinion the best desktop os from MS, but i use only a linux and the Windows is inside a virtual machine ( lot of software for storage/management are ported only for Windows platform ).

mikap

[rick jones]

I have had success doing vMedia installs of RHE 5.3 and SLES11 onto BL460 G6's with a laptop running Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. (Using the "plain" Remote Console of course :)

[JKytsi]

Stupid question maybe but are You sure that your media is bootable ?

[Diego Castelli]

i Quote Jarkko.

I would try this way:

Try to boot from the media on your PC: it could be not bootable.

Try to boot from the media from an (old enough) CD/DVD Drive: it could be written too fast, if it isn't original media, to work with virtual media. I had this problem too in the past. OR, if you can, directly try writing the CD again slower.

If everything's OK with the media:

Try to use virtual media from IE7 or 6.

Try to restore the default ports (if you can, even for a bit)

Try to upgrade the ILO2 FW.

If everything fails, contact HP.

[BDay]

Yes, the media is bootable. If I walk down to the server room and stick it in the server it boots it fine. I'll try upgrading one of them to 1.78 today and see if it helps. I built an XP VM yesterday with IE7 instead of IE8 to test with so hopefully I can get to it today. :)

[Val1976]

In order to boot from virtual CD you have to set the following configuration on server BIOS:

USB control ----- Eternal USB ports disabled.
USB 2.0 COntroller ------ Disabled

That works for me.

Regards.

[AlexZZZ]

Thanks!!! That works for me too... :)