i got a r720 with a h710 that was allready in ITmode. my problem is i can’t see any drives in idrac. so i can’t seem to figure out how to boot from a drive connected to the h710.
i can see all the drive when i load up a live usb
my first enterprise server so be nice
You could be missing H710 BIOS, you can’t boot from the HBA without it. I have a pair of T320s with H310 and I usually have them in IT mode without BIOS so I boot from the integrated controller on the mobo.
In IT mode you shouldn’t have to select the boot drive. The only thing your server really “sees” are all of the drives connected. Since the H710 didn’t natively support IT mode in the stock firmware, the iDRAC will not see any drives. Just boot to your installation media via USB or mount an ISO using iDRAC then select your desired disks to install the OS to during the OS installation.
A word of caution about using iDRAC 7 and HTML5 remote console… I have gotten some very weird symptoms including iDRAC hanging with remote console when I used EFI to boot linux distros I’ve tried… legacy always worked fine.
so i randomly got it to boot, for some reason when the option to enter the h710 config if i do ctrl c… it boots to true nas but not the config, so every time the server reboots i have to hit ctrl c to get it to boot. any ideas?
Any one have some idea, its driving me crazy.
satadom or USB boot stick?
doesn’t need the whole OS, just the /boot portion?
If the BIOS is not properly poling the drives on the card, then give it an easier thing to find?
it boots fine to usb. but it seems to not be a good idea any more to boot from usb.
You could try to flash a bios file onto the H710? the same way it gets flashed to IT mode.
Often the bios file is stripped out for IT mode.
This should bring back the Ctrl-C menu at boot
So i have the ctrl c option, the only way it boots past the bios is if i hit ctrl c. If i dont it just hangs at avago mpt2 boot rom successfully installed.
So if i hit ctrl c it doesn’t hang… but doesn’t go to the h710 bios settings. It just boots up my truenas setup.
True nas works fine sees all my drives. The problem is i have to be at the server on boot to hit ctrl c.
I have tried to follow the steps to flash the h710, but i cant get the thing to boot from a usb now, i think it only sees the drives hooked up to the h710
ok i figured it out! my h710 was 100% fine! i put in a pci to sata adapter to use some m.2 sata drives laying around and when i pull that card it boots as normal!
what a pain haha
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