i let it sit there for well over an hour...i dont think it's doing much of anything considering that it does the same thing if i try to enter setup and if i let it continue booting and there's no hard drive plugged in..it gets to the same point. if it got to the booting phase, it would probably...
i recently purchased a VA Linux FullOn 2230 server...used and in good condition. However, I'm having some booting problems. Upon powering on, bios loads (it reads as Phoenix v4.0 Release 6.0)..CPUs, memory, CD-ROM are all properly detected...F2 for setup..yaddy yadda. If I just let it continue...