Proliant 3000 Server

[Kyle Sexton]

On 3/10/07, RtX <riverty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 Server. It is a dual Pentium II 400 with 7
> SCSI drives. I am trying to get this server setup with some flavor of Linux
> (I haven't decided which yet) but am having trouble setting up the disk
> array. Maybe I'm really off base but I'm going off of other setups where I
> would configure the RAID array before installing the OS.
>
> I have downloaded and created the Compaq SmartStart 5.5 CD and seems to
> boot and do what it's supposed to do. However, when I try to run the Array
> Configuration Utility, it bombs.
>
> I have tried to run this utility from the CD. It requests that I put the
> ACU disk into drive A, then states that it will reboot the system to boot
> off of this floppy. OK. Reboot and I get non-system disk everytime. I have
> created the disks (2 total) 3 or 4 times to no avail. These disks are simply
> not bootable. The option to run the ACU from the system partition is not an
> option.
>
> So I'm left with either I have a bunch of bad floppies, a broken system,
> or I just don't understand what I'm doing. I guess it's possible that one
> HAS to create the array after the installation of an OS. Could this be? Am I
> supposed to create the array AFTER OS installation? Am I missing a step?
>
> --
> RtX...
>
> Ty Unes - Overland Park, Ks.
> riverty at gmail.com
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Do you know what type of RAID controller is in the server?  Does it give you
an option on boot (w/o the CD) to enter the controller's BIOS?

-- 
Kyle Sexton
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