Hi,
Pretty basic thing I'm trying to do here but not having any luck. All I'm trying to do is install Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2900.
I've tried booting to optical disk with the Windows disk in the DVD drive. The DVD drive LED flashes but nothing happens (I've left it for over an hour).
I've tried a second DVD drive assuming the first was faulty, same thing.
I then made a bootable USB flash drive. Tested in my laptop and boots up fine. On the server, it detects the USB flash drive but does not seem to do anything when I tell it to boot to it, tried front and back ports.
Then I burnt an .iso of the Dell Systems Build and Update Utility and again, does not work.
My last resort is PXE boot but I don't have anything setup for this. What's going on with this server?? I come from a HP and IBM background so don't have much experience with Dell servers but this is ridiculous.