RE: boot from san

Hi,

You say you have checked the boot.ini - when you remove the original boot
controller the boot.ini maybe pointing to a controller that doesn't exist.

Check that the QLOGIC is listed as a bootable device in the server BIOS and
try changing the device boot order to the QLOGIC.

Sorry if you have already done this.



"lukesh" wrote:

> Hi All,
> One of my customers has the following configuration:
>
> Hardware:
>
> Servers – Dell Poweredge 2650 (Raid5, Perc 3/Di RAID Controller)
> SAN – EMC Clariion CX300i iSCSI based SAN storage unit,
>
> For booting these servers from SAN arrays we will be using HBA Qlogic
> QLA4010C adapters.
>
> Software:
>
> Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1, Symantec LiveState Recovery
> Advanced Server 3 ver. 3.0.03427 installed
>
>
> The system drive is on the local perc 3/di raid. he used symantec livestate
> to do a one on one imaging to the e:(which is on san). Now, with the local
> raid plugged in, he can boot off the san. The hba bios has been enabled to
> boot from SAN. But as soon as he unpluggs the local raid, he is not able to
> boot from san and recieves "Windows could not start because of a computer
> disk hardware configuration problem". I have checked the boot.ini with and
> without local raid. I'll really appreciate your help.
>
> Lukesh
.

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