Monday, July 9, 2012

Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or Offline

HP DL380 G5 w/Smart Array P400.

So a few weeks ago I decided to re-purpose a server which was previously utilized as a freenas head unit running some lower tier SATA disks for nfs vm storage.  This device was set to boot to freenas off a usb key.

During the Windows 2008 R2 installation process, I kept getting the error "Boot Logical Drive is Configured but is missing or offline" error.  To troubleshoot, I've updated firmware to the latest, reset all array config settings & rbsu information via the HP Smart Start boot disk to no avail.

In the end, it turns out that I needed to F8 during the array setup screen to get to the ROM controller's config menu.  Select Boot Volume > Direct Attached Storage.  Escape out and save changes.






I have no idea how this got messed up in the first place, perhaps it was when we first set freenas to boot off usb.

4 comments:

  1. Try HP Offline Smart Storage Administrator and "Set Bottable Logical Drive/Volume" option

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  2. Just over 8 years and today this post just saved me a headache with a re-purpose of DL380 GEN8 missing its boot volume!

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  3. This solution worked from me! Thanks!

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