Hello,
I have a PowerEdge 2850 server, loaded with 6 1GB sticks of RAM, 2 CPU's purchased used, with a floppy drive and CD/DVD drive.
After starting the server and configuring the RAID, having loaded 6 146GB drives, it finished going through the boot-up, and failed to boot, saying
"No boot device available, press F1 to continue or F2 to enter Setup"
I've tried 2 different hardware CD/DVD drives, double and triple checked that the drive is seated, and tried multiple discs that I know are bootable discs, the primary one being the Dell Server Setup and Configuration DVD.
The DRAC is configured and upon startup during the rest of the display messages it displays
"Drive 0 VIRTUAL FLOPPY
"Drive 1 VIRTUAL CDROM
Those may not be exact, but, the messages indicate that it should see the hardware unless I am understanding it wrong.
I cannot figure out what else to do to make this boot from the CD. The drive light flashes on and off during the whole boot process.
Thanks in advance.