On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 18:49, Russ Wright wrote:
> Hey All!
>
> Need some assistance. Some time ago I told you about a not for profit
> called family services. They needed a spam filter I go tthem Linux and
> a spam filter product but they are having issues with the box. Here is
> his email to me:
>
> Ahem, well, uh, we have this old Compaq Proliant 2500 server. It won't
> load Linux (EnGarde or RedHat 8) onto it's SCSI-RAID drives, nor will it
> work with an IDE hard drive. RedHat plain old won't load and EnGarde
> seems to, but the system won't boot afterward and there appears to be
> nothing there when looking on the hard drives. Do you know anyone who's
> an old Compaq server guru? Or is there something we need to do to
> preconfigure the Linux installer so that it will load onto an old
> dual-drive mirrored SCSI-RAID array?
>
>
> Does anyone know how to get linux onto this box?
A lot of the old Proliants and Prosignias had a special maintenance
partition. I think it was F10 on bootup to access the partition.
>From there you can set boot characteristics and other items, including
SCSI/IDE boot.
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