Any HP Proliant gurus here?

[Darren S]

I've just reformatted a HP ML350 G3 server with Windows 2003 Standard Edition. The O/S is fine, but at the BIOS level, I have to press F1 for the server to actually continue and boot-up.

It's a stupidly obvious problem and I think I'm not seeing the wood for the trees - lol! I've gone through the BIOS options, set the 641 Array to be the primary boot device, set the array to be bootable, etc. But I still have to press F1 for the bugger to continue.

Obviously, this could be a problem should we have any system crashes/reboots, etc.

Any ideas, guys?

Cheers,
D.

 

[Mike_182]

Might have to set the array as bootable in the RAID controller BIOS? As that usually half-narks it. Also check that there's no FDD or CD in there...

 

[dk]

google is your friend

try this, ml370 but same setup

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service...447626+1212065764067+28353475&threadId=888934

its a hidden option, need to go into the advanced mode.

 

[dk]

or alternatively it could be this, disable the Halt on error warning.

http://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/...-when-booting-make-change-bios-boot-t482.html

 

[Darren S]

Might have to set the array as bootable in the RAID controller BIOS? As that usually half-narks it. Also check that there's no FDD or CD in there...

I saw that option Mike. I was half-on the clicky-ticky option, but thought better of it.

Dave - cheers for the link, m8. That looks to be the trick. Exchange is just being put on it now, so once that's out of the way, I'll restart it and go into Advanced Mode.

D.

 

[dk]

did you fix it?

 

[Darren S]

did you fix it?

Lol - yes.

I did say that I couldn't see the wood for the trees. I double-checked the BIOS settings and clear as day - there was the option to disable/enable 'POST F1 Prompt'

DOH! Thanks anyway, m8!

D.