Hi y'all:
I have a PE 2650 server (quite old) running RH linux. The OS system is broken and does not boot to it, but it DOES boot halfway (it stops at "no inittab found, enter runlevel..." a simple way to solve this is to boot from the CDROM and create a new inittab file. BUT:
System does not boot from CD ROM. Replaced the CDROM unit two times already (I have two other identical servers), nothing.
Tried: Rescue CDs, Dell's Server MAnage, Windows 7, Ubuntu, Centos... nothing.
Tried: MSDOS floppy, Dell's BIOS bootable floppys (two)... nothing.
I took anothe server, a spare HD, installed the OS thinking I could just mount it on the server, but the PERC complained that the HD wasn't initialized.
The server DOES try to read the CDROMs and the floppies, but it says it cannot find a bootable disk.
I want to boot BY ANY MEANS just to update the BIOS and see if thast solves the booting issue.
Questions:
1) Anybody can shed some light?
2) If I initialize a HD with the PERC utility, will I lose the configuration i currently have? (i have data on the HDs that are currently on the server).
Please, help. I'll buy a new server if I can boot this one. Promised,.
Cheers,
Carlos...