Fw: [olug] any proliant gurus out there?

[gvanmill at unmc.edu]

I forwarded your message to a guy here at work that has done linux on a 
proliant.  For what it's worth.
--Glen
----- Forwarded by Glen Vanmilligan/IntMed/UNMC/UNEBR on 04/30/2004 01:59 
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Sean Duffy <swduffy at unmc.edu> 
04/30/2004 11:03 AM
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Re: Fw: [olug] any proliant gurus out there?






Glen,

When I boot mine, it asks to initialize iLo, then it asks about the raid
controller, then the screen clears and there are for prompts.

The second of the 4 prompts is an [F9] (RBSU) which let me into the
usual bios tyoe settings.  That is where he can set the boot device
order.  He'll also need to set the System Options, Operating System, to
Linux.

Sean

P.S.  If it works he owes me a beer!  ;^)

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:52, gvanmill at unmc.edu wrote:
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> Sean, since you are working with the Proliant system, do you have any
> answers here?
> --Glen
> ----- Forwarded by Glen Vanmilligan/IntMed/UNMC/UNEBR on 04/30/2004 
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>   Craig Wolf has kindly provided me with a Proliant SmartStart 5.40 CD
> for my Proliant 7000.
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>   If I run CPQErase then boot from CD I get an initial config option
> where I can spec the OS to be installed. I've tried a couple of
> different ones but no matter which I pick the machine reboots and
> doesn't boot from the CD into the config utils.
> 
>   I found some .dat files on the CD that appear to be a set of bootable
> floppies, the first floppy boots but comes back with an 'error 76' and
> refuses to proceed.
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>    As far as I can see the last resort is plugging a SCSI drive into the
> non raid controller, installing win2k or something, then loading the
> array config util on that OS. I *really* don't want to go to the trouble
> of doing this if there is a simple way to coax the CD to work.
> 
>   Hello? Anyone? Its OK, I won't out you for being a recovering Compaq
> user if you tell me the secret.
> 
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