Continueing mess with ServeRaid. I5

From: Med Dement 
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well I have it loading windows.. 2003 and all looks good and right.. and =
it goes to reboot after install and we go through the raid card and all =
well .. then it goes to open windows.. and I get the windows.. server =
2003 screen.. and the bar right below gives me one bar and then black =
and reboot...  and again and again ... safe mode does the same ... and =
will not get a load up...

any ideas..??
I tried ubuntu and and suse and both were going to take a good 10 hours =
to load.. so something is for sure... set wrong.


Med Dement
med@hophoto.com




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From: Jim Wells 
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From: Med Dement 
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there are 6 drives.. and I took the express installation on the Raid set =
up.. ... whats your suggestion.. maybe I take and make one drive for =
windows and raid the others.. or  or..??


Med Dement
med@hophoto.com




and it goes to reboot after install and we go through the raid card and =
all well .. then it goes to open windows.. and I get the windows.. =
server 2003 screen.. and the bar right below gives me one bar and then =
black and reboot...  and again and again ... safe mode does the same ... =
and will not get a load up...
hours to load.. so something is for sure... set wrong.

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From: Med Dement 
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whew I would have to relearn my brain.


Med Dement
med@hophoto.com




and it goes to reboot after install and we go through the raid card and =
all well .. then it goes to open windows.. and I get the windows.. =
server 2003 screen.. and the bar right below gives me one bar and then =
black and reboot...  and again and again ... safe mode does the same ... =
and will not get a load up...
hours to load.. so something is for sure... set wrong.

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From: Jim Wells 
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How about when you installed windows and created the partition did you 
use ALL the space one large partition ? if yes try making a 40GB just 
for the Windows OS install


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From: Dave Brockman 
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Jim said:


2003 only supports > 2TB boot volume if the hardware supports EFI, and
I think in 2003 terms that means Itanium.  I don't think Windows got
the EFI/GPT x64 boot code until Vista/2008 code.

So you need to do an "advanced" disk partitioning, and carve out a 

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From: Meds Mail 
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On to Ubuntu and more scotch   It seems to like that ok so far it didn't like suse 

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