Hi. Little background first. I have just started
my mandatory practical training period and
networking is what I am more familiar with.
I have a problem with one of our servers. Some
time during the summer one server’s motherboard
broke. We got new motherboard but the OS was
damaged and I had to reinstall it. This was the
first reinstall which went smoothly. I got
backup up and running but after the first reboot
I got message “operating system not found”.
After using repair console etc. I was forced to
format and reinstall again.
Now this is where the problems started. The
windows install copies all files from media and
creates folders without problems. After the
first reboot the install should continue in GUI
but it doesn’t. It starts from cd again. I’ve
tried couple of times the fresh install but it
is just the same. Taking cd out from drive just
gives me “operating system not found” again.
Server has five sas hard drives and I was told
that two them were using software
raid1(operating system in these) and rest three
were hardware raid5. I really need to find
documentation of the server, I’m not sure about
other specs(not really sure if I’m going to find
anything since the latest backup from system was
2 years old…). The biggest question is why the
first install went smoothly but now it is giving
headache.
