I have an old PE 2950 that I use for all my home automation needs. Work great since a while, but, I was trying to upgrade my harddrive and now I have problem.
Here's my setup before :
1- RAID-5 array with 6 disks and 1 Virtual Disks 2- RAID-0 array with 1 disk
My goal was to replace 2 disks in my first array, so I replaced the harddrives then boot the server. I got some config errors before going in the PERC controller management.
From the management, I : 1- Removed all my RAID-5 configuration 2- Created a new disk group in RAID-10 with all my 6 disks 3- Initialized the VD
After that, I saw in the foreign configuration that I had the disk, from my array 2, that was in a "foreign" mode. I then choose to CLEAR all foreign.
I then, after, recreated a disk group and a new VD for my harddisk that I want to be in RAID-0. Note : I didn't re-initialize it, because I would prefer to not lost the DATA originally on the disk.
So now my config is : 1- RAID-10 array with 6 disks and 1 Virtual Disks 2- RAID-0 array with 1 disk
I as able to reboot the server and boot on a DVD to install ESXI-5. From the installation, I was able to see my 2 virtual disks so I decided to install the OS on my VD from my RAID-10 configuration. Install has been successul.
But now, after the reboot, I get each time : PXE-E53 No boot. I am stuck there.