Hello,
I am trying to install Windows 7 64bit on my machine and am having issues. So far:
Set up raid 1 on disk 0 and disk 1 for the OS
Set up raid 5 on the other 6 drives
Initialized the drives and rebooted.
On startup I see the follwing meassages....(not sure if this is what they say exactly, going off memory as im at work right now)
BIOS for adapter 0 is disabled
BIOS for adapter 1 is disabled
Rom Bios not installed
If I let it complete, it recognizes (2) virtual drives but it just hangs after everything is checked.
If I boot with the Win 7 CD it doesn't recognize the CD or prompt to boot from CD.
I downloaded a dell installation and server management CD and booted with that. It boots from that CD but gives me an error once the GUI starts that says disk error verify disks are initialized which they are. I used fast init, not the slow init.
I downloaded a new DVD from DELL (SBUU) but have not tried it yet.
I am fairly savvy with PC's but not very experienced with servers. I am just looking for some insight on what could be the issue. My application does not call the need to use a server OS, so I am going with Win 7 64 bit.
Thanks for any help!
Jimmie