No boot device on Dell Poweredge 6300

Hi

I have just bought an Dell PowerEdge 6300/400 from e-bay. The disks
have been wiped I assume.

When I power up the machine, a message comes up saying 'no boot device
available, F1 to retry, F2 for setup utility"

Just previous to this message coming up, I've tried to CTRL-M to
create an array, but nothing happens, a message saying 'firmware
spinning drives' comes up as soon as the 'press CTRL M for RAID array'
comes up.

I'd like to install Linux on this machine....I put the Linux CD's in
and thought I had configured the OS from there, but as soon as the
installation finished and it said to remove the CD's and reboot, I am
confronted with this 'no boot device' message again!!

I'm not familiar with Dell hardware. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Specs are below;

SPECIFICATION:

Dell PowerEdge 6300 Server

P2 QUAD 400Mhz
512 MB Ram
6x 9gb Hard drives

CD-Rom Drive
SCSI AIC-7890, AIC-7860
3x power supply

I am wondering whether the array has been deleted, which is fine - but
how can I go into the array configuration and recreate one?

Many thanks in advance

<smokejo@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have just bought an Dell PowerEdge 6300/400 from e-bay. The disks
> have been wiped I assume.
>
> When I power up the machine, a message comes up saying 'no boot device
> available, F1 to retry, F2 for setup utility"
>
> Just previous to this message coming up, I've tried to CTRL-M to
> create an array, but nothing happens, a message saying 'firmware
> spinning drives' comes up as soon as the 'press CTRL M for RAID array'
> comes up.
>
> I'd like to install Linux on this machine....I put the Linux CD's in
> and thought I had configured the OS from there, but as soon as the
> installation finished and it said to remove the CD's and reboot, I am
> confronted with this 'no boot device' message again!!
>
> I'm not familiar with Dell hardware. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
> Specs are below;
>
> SPECIFICATION:
>
> Dell PowerEdge 6300 Server
>
> P2 QUAD 400Mhz
> 512 MB Ram
> 6x 9gb Hard drives
>
> CD-Rom Drive
> SCSI AIC-7890, AIC-7860
> 3x power supply
>
> I am wondering whether the array has been deleted, which is fine - but
> how can I go into the array configuration and recreate one?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>

Don't have much, but I have a couple of links that might help:

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...r/en/index.htm

Dell forums at support.dell.com :

http://www.dellcommunity.com/support...d=tt_poweredge

My guess would be that you'll have to set the system BIOS to accomodate your
specific RAID configuration, and then go into the RAID BIOS and
configure/create the array.

Good luck.

Stew