[Wylug-help] HP proliant

[Scott Hodgson]

Have you tried "/dev/hda1"  ?

I am still struggling with it at the moment.  Got the SmartStart 5.5 and 
used manual install to get linux to recognise it properly. Basically i 
was using the guided install before but had problems; ubuntu server sees 
the squashfs system when booting but not much else works with it - no 
idea why.  so have tried to change it with SmartStart but the program is 
so vague.  I am renaming the program to ShiteStart-out-of-date 5.dos.

ROBERTS, Mike wrote:
>   
>> If any one has been having problems getting smartstart 5.5 for the 
>> proliant g1 (ish) then follow the link.
>>
>> ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/supportsoftware/CP00
>> 5001-005500/CP00
>> 5250.ZIP 
>> <javascript:openExternal('ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/se
>> rvers/supportsoftware/CP005001-005500/CP005250.ZIP')>
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> My first post :) to WYLUG. I have watched this with interest and have a
> small observation and a question. I too have a Compaq Proliant server, a
> DL360 1U rack mount device. I found SmartStart and installed it and then
> moved on to install SME server (http://www.smeserver.org/) where I came
> unstuck.
>
> SmartStart, as I understand it, is effectively (and in common with other
> Compaqs of a similar vinatge) a BIOS installed to the hard disk. When I
> installed SME server by default it overwrote the mbr/partiton SmartStart
> was installed in to meaning that it then wasn't possible to hit F10 at
> boot to get back in to make any configuration changes without rebooting
> with the SmartStart CD in the drive.
>
> Andy McNabb's pages on this were useful
> (http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/proliant/) and offers advice on how
> to not overwrite by installing to hd0,0 rather than hd0 if using GRUB.
> However I didn't spot an option to change the default install with SME
> server and overwrote SmartStart.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on how one should phrase a command line /
> GRUB install to persuade an OS to not install to HD0 but to go to HD0,0
> and avoid trashing SmartStart?
>
> Regards Mike
>
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