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January 12th, 2012 10:00
PROBLEMS INSTALLING WINDOWS 2008 R2 WITH SP1 ON R310
New R310. According to the bootup, there's a perc h700 raid controller. What I've tried:
1. Inserted the SMTD 6.5.0 DVD that came with the server. It boots up fine...gets to the point where it ask me to insert the appropriate OS media. I'm getting
“The file ‘autorun.dll’ could not be loaded or is corrupt. Setup cannot continue. Error code is [0xC1]”
The OS media is an open license one that I downloaded from MS. There is NO autorun.dll file on the media.
2. Boot the server straight from the w2k8 r1 with sp1 CD. Boots up fine...gets to the point where it ask me for drivers (presumably the perc h700 raid controller driver). I extracted DELL_MULTI-DEVICE_A00_R244735.exe to a USB drive. When I point the server to the drivers on the USB drive, I'm getting
"No new devices could be found. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver installation media."
Huh??? But the driver I downloaded is specifically for the H700 and it's for Windows 2008 R2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wth is going on? This is so frustrating...
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DELL-Rey G
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January 12th, 2012 11:00
I'm checking to see if I can download the opensource disc, but I did check my OEM version and it does have an autorun.dll in the Sources folder. I did some googling of your error message and it seems that its a bad iso or bad burn. There is supposed to be an MD5 hash on the iso image, and I suggest checking it to make sure the image is correct. I use a program called Digital Volcano hash tool www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/.../md5-hash.
When I burn to disc, I usually check the box that verifies the burn.
ccslai
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January 12th, 2012 11:00
Yup...those are the steps that I took and the screens I saw.
Is autorun.dll supposed to be in the R2 open volume license ISO? Would you be able to verify that?
DELL-Rey G
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January 12th, 2012 11:00
Howdy, lets see if we can get you going. First, lets check your steps. Boot to the SMTD disk, eventually get to the OS choice, and you are selecting windows 2008 R2 Sp1 (not windows 2008 x86 or x64), next, next etc, apply, it copies some files, then reboots and THEN asks you for the Windows OS disc and then it gives you the autorun.dll error. is that correct?
ccslai
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January 12th, 2012 14:00
I burned the ISO twice on 2 diff machines/DVD burner so I don't know how I can be burning the DVDs wrong? As I've mentioned, I can boot the DVD direct, both on the Dell server itself and also on a VMWARE Server VM.
There is no hash listed for the ISO on microsoft website.
And yes my Sources folder has autorun.dll
DELL-Rey G
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January 12th, 2012 15:00
Do you know if your system has an iDrac express in it?
ccslai
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January 13th, 2012 17:00
My silliness.
I didn't realize that the ISO I downloaded WAS NOT COMPLETED! It was 1.6 gig in size and I neglected to check the size before I burned it. As I've mentioned, the (bad) DVD did boot up properly in my vmware and direct on my dell server???..which looking back I thought was strange.
Anyways, I downloaded the ISO..making sure it's 2.9 gig total size. Burned it. It's fine now.
On a side note, where during the installation process does it ask me how to partition my virtual disk?
There are four 2TB disks in the server. I went into the PERC BIOS and made the four a raid 5 set. As I was installing w2k8 r2, I don't ever remember the installation process asking me how I want to partition the 6TB virtudal disk??? When it came time to copy the W2K8 R2 files over, the installation process showed me a partition that's 2TB and a partition that's close to 4TB. The DELETE command button was dimmed out so I couldn't select it. I just picked the 2TB to install the OS.
Anyone know why? Did I miss a step? I just wanted a 1TB partition to be the OS...and the rest to be data.