Hello everyone,
Yesterday I bought an older PowerEdge 2650 server off craigslist, it was tested and all the hardware works on it. The guy said that he could load Ubuntu on it for $25, I opted to do it myself. The problem is that when I turn it on, after POST, it comes up with "boot device not available, strike f1 to retry, press f2 for setup."
After hours (up till 6 AM) of messing with almost every setting that seemed even remotely related to the problem I have come up with nothing. I have tried loading the Diagnostics CD, same thing. My thought is that the cd drive is toast or something to that tune.Unfortunatly, these servers do not boot from USB.
It does have the option to PXE boot, is there a way to install Ubuntu Server using this option? I have another server that I have Ubuntu Server loaded on so setting up a PXE server isnt a problem.