Dell 650 poweredge can't boot of secondary ide channel

[Connor T]

Hi,

I have a dell 650 poweredge, and have just tried disconnecting c: (
primary channel ) to check it boots ok from d: ( secondary )

however it doesnt. Also there's no option in the bios to boot from d:,
so is it not supported? seems a bit stupid to me...

Dunno if this is the best place to get support on such servers, they're
quite specialist..

Rgds,
Dan

 

[Pen]

Hi,

I have a dell 650 poweredge, and have just tried
disconnecting c: (
primary channel ) to check it boots ok from d: (
secondary )

however it doesnt. Also there's no option in the bios to
boot from d:,
so is it not supported? seems a bit stupid to me...

Dunno if this is the best place to get support on such
servers, they're
quite specialist..

Rgds,
Dan

Go here download the User's Guide.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pe650/en/index.htm
Says you should be able to select both boot order and which
hard drive.

 

[Connor T]

yup, but in the hard drive sequence list, it just says bios devices,
and embedded st180(?) which is the c drive. I Can't find the option to
allow it to boot from d, if c doesnt exist.

 

[Bennett Price]

What happens if you move the C drive to the D drive position? Perhaps
you've no boot partition on your current D drive.