RE: boot from san

Hi Niall,
Thanks for your respnse. Yes, I have already done this but no go.

Lukesh

"Niall" wrote:

> 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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