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Win 2003 R2 on a PE R410
I've got a Dell PowerEdge R410, to which we were running Windows Server 2003 R2 (32bit) on for about six months. We were testing a product and we've decided to roll out that new product.
The server was built originally, with one giant virtual drive (two 2tb drives combined into a single raid0 4tb drive). During that original build, it was set up using UEFI for the install and then BIOS set back to use BIOS as the boot.
Went to wipe out the raid array, built it as two single 2tb raid1 drives (perc 6/h700); however, every time I boot to the Windows CD, I that it cannot find any disks. Go into UEFI and try that way, and get basically the same thing.
I've tried downloading the OM 6.5 Systems Build disk; however, then I run into errors asking for a server manager disk (which I thought was part of cd..guess not).
How, can I get this thing going again?
Thanks
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July 26th, 2012 08:00
Windows 2003 (32 or 64 bit) doesn't support booting with UEFI. So you'd need to stay in BIOS mode.
Also, Windows 2003 doesn't have the PERC driver natively, so you'll need to provide it the driver (via floppy drive (Windows 2003 limitation) or integrate it into a 2003 ISO and burn it again. The 2003 media also needs to have SP2 as part of it.
HFMike
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July 26th, 2012 13:00
OK, maybe I'm doing this wrong (do wonder how I had it installed once using the same CD, but hey...).
Downloaded:
DELL_MULTI-DEVICE_A02_R283421
DELL_MULTI-DEVICE_A07_R211422
AND SAS_RAID_H700A_12.10.4-0001_A10_ZPE
Extracted them to a folder
Copied the MS Win2K3 R2 CD I had gotten from Dell to another folder
Downloaded and installed nLite
Started nLite
Browsed to my server CD and allowed it to find the source files
Got to the nLite screen asking me what I wanted to integrate and what not
Chose Drivers
Next screen chose to 'Insert Single Driver'
Browsed to the oemsetup.inf file for "DELL PERC5 and PERC6/Cerc6 RAID Controller Driver (Server 2003 32 bit)
Chose 'Regular PNP driver' and clicked OK
Did the same for DELL PERC H700/H800 RAID Controller Driver (Server 2003 32 bit).
Had nLite create an ISO
Burned the ISO and booted to the CD from the server, got the same results... basically cannot find any hard disks
However when I boot up, the BIOS does see the disks and virtual drive
HFMike
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July 26th, 2012 13:00
Found my issue... Was setting it in nLite as a Regular PNP driver, went to a text driver and all is booting as it should now.