I am sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, I thought for a long time where to post this.
Hello, I recently bought a Rackable Systems 2U RAID server off of eBay for a very low price.
I just cannot get that server to boot anything. I have installed Ubuntu on the RAID disk, but it will not boot. Any bootable media, such as install CDs and bootable USBs, will not boot for some reason, with the text "Operating Systems not found".
Is there ANY way I could possibly bring the server back to life? Could I install an operating system onto the RAID disk some other way than an Installer?
Specs I know:
Rackable Systems 2U server
RAID 2TB Hard Drive (4x 500Gb SATA 7,200rpm Drives) capable of R0, R1, R5, R10
32GB RAM DDR2
Two AMD Opteron Duad Cores at 2.11 GHz per core
Robust Flextronics / Arima Corporation NM46X dual processor Opteron 2nd Generation Multicore Server class Motherboard
Integrated ATI ES1000 16Mb Graphics Adapter
Integrated 2x Nvidia McP55 Gigabit 10/100/1000 LAN Adapters. No WiFi Adapters
Came with Windows Server 2003 Trial Edition, wiped by installing other OSs such as Ubuntu
I wonder if I change the RAID type around, will I be able to install operating systems once again?
Could I connect the RAID disk to another computer and install from there?
Could I switch out the RAID disk and BIOS completely to install operating systems?
Anything I can do to install an operating system?
I am guessing that the four numbered "boxes" circled must be the Hard Drives...