Message: 1 Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:53:30 -0600 From: Rahul Nabar <[email protected]> Subject: R410 stops during boot waiting for a keypress of F1 or F2 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On some of my R410 servers the BIOS stops at a message: "Press F1 to proceed or F2 to enter System Setup" These are clustered machines so such a message just causes the whole automated boot process to halt since they don't have a keyboard or console attached where one presses this key. Is there a way to automate changing this via sysconfg? I found no clue in the Dell Deployment Guide. In the BIOS though there is a setting that chooses whether or not the system halts on the errors. -- Rahul Hi Rahul, If you bought the systems without an optical drive, it's likely that "missing" device that's halting the post process. Enter the BIOS either locally or via Drac F2 > SATA Settings > set the port to off > exit and save If you didn't, you have to look at the entire POST output on the screen, not just the lines above "Press F1..." to see what the error is - it will be shown during POST. //Michael _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
