On 24-dec-2005, at 17:43, Peter Teunissen wrote:
On 23-dec-2005, at 22:58, Raquel Rice wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:22:49 +0100
Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to
install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries
to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but
fails after the initial bootloader sequence.
I've tried booting without any result:
- sarge installer CD
- Sarge bootfloppy
- HP Smartstart 5.50
It simply ignores the floppy or CD and start booting from disk.
Even the setup utility (F10) results in a message: 'System
partition utilities not available on this system'
I've googled but couldn't find info on how to setup this system to
boot a Linux installer.
Does anyone have information on onstalling Debian on this system
or pointers to good info?
Have you changed the bios so it will boot from the floppy or the CD?
That's what I'd like to do. But as far as I could learn from the HP
site is that this can either be done from the smartstart CD
(doesn't boot) of by pushing F9 (don't get this option during boot)
or F10 (get error message above) Does anyone know of another manner
to access the bios?
In the end the solution was quite simple. Since the bios had been
setup to boot from disk as primary choice and couldn't be accessed in
any way, I simply removed the scsi disks and voila, it booted the HP
Smartstart CD. I could then do a system erase and setup the system
for manual Linux install. It's installed now and performs much faster
then I expected!
Thanks to all who responded!
Peter
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