Re: HELP Please on booting issue.

This is a hardware error (issue) so check the documentation for your mobo or raid controller. Sounds like no boot device is defined.

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"newsqlman" wrote:
I have a Dell server that has a Raid-5 configuration that after it
boots through the scsi portion and the raid drive portion of the
initial posts. It finds the logical drive but then it says strike f1
to retry boot or f2 for setup.

The boot sequence is setup fine and the raid configuration with the
logical drive is fine. This happened on a reboot. I have been able
to boot to the windows cd and ran the recovery console and am able to
login to the C: drive which gives me the c:\winnt folder and have run
a chkdsk /r but when I restart it still does the same thing. Does not
give me any windows boot errors at all its like there is no bootable
drive but the recovery console can see it.

My question is if the c: drive (partition) was somehow not considered
an active partition would it do this? Or would it give me a windows
error?

Also with recovery console how can I see which partitions are active?
Basically the only partitions are the dell utility (21mb fat
partition) and the c: drive the server has been using for 3 years now
with no problems.

I know that on a basic pc i can run fdisk and see which drive is
active or actually change the active partition but am not familiar
with using fdisk with a raid 5 controller etc... etc... Like I said I
can see all my files when in recovery console but the system won't
boot and does not give me any windows errors about why it won't boot.

The machine just says hit f1 to retry boot or f2 for setup.

The server is running Windows 2000 Std Server with SP4.

Thanks to anyone who helps.


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