Re: A question from me...

Hi Mariette,

I only mention it as a possibility, I'm fairly certain you would have
checked. The item to check is the bios boot device order. Jan has a mobo
which I'm fairly certain is an intel chipset, in a system we used as a test
box. Each time a HDD is added to the box the boot order needs to be set to
whichever devices, the bios seems to change the order randomly on each drive
change. Your change from independent drives to RAID array may be causing a
similar behaviour. But, I emphasise, I'm only mentioning it as it is an
observed behaviour, I really do expect you've already checked this.

Another possibility. Do not create the array until the OS is installed.
This depends on whether the controller can non-destructively create the
array, most can but I'm not familiar with your mobo and not prepared to read
the manual :-)

"Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]" <mariette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O3QeKqkXFHA.796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In news:428f9c17$0$146$3a628fcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> E.R. Klarenaar <er.klarenaar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a server with a Intel S845WD1H. (not the same !!!)
>> The installation for me give no problem.
>> Let me explain:
>> - I made in the bios the raid configuration
>> - boot from cd1 and insert the driver disk when needed.
>
> Thanks Edward. But that is the problem, I can no longer boot from CD or
> floppy. I cannot install any OS on the raid array because I cannot boot
> from any media. I have tried booting from a USB CD Rom, did not work. Next
> thing I am going to try is to add an IDE drive that is DOS bootable and
> has the SBS installation media on it, maybe that works.
>
> As soon as I delete the array booting from CD and floppy works again.
>
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