IBM M1015 help needed.

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bastage

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Long story short.. Just installed WHS 2011 on my server. All HDD are conencted to an IBM M1015. Everything went fine durring the install which I did with only 1 drive connected (some have data so I wanted to be sure not to overwrite something needed).

Well now when I conenct the other drives the cards bootup does recognize the drives in JBOD, but it then it fails to boot. I believe that it is trying to boot from another drive. How do I specify what drive it should be using. The drive I am trying to use is on channel 1 device 0.
 
I have the boot drive specified int he computers BIOS, but on the cards I jsut get a prompts of either "$" or "BOOT" if I hit either Ctrl + y or Ctrl + h

Edit.. And it seems to of gotten worse.. I dont know what I did, but now if any drives are powered on and conected to the controller I get

No default or UI configuration directive Found!
boot:
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I have a SAS 6/iR which is also LSI-based and I had a similar sort of problem. On the SAS 6/iR I disabled all RAID capability in the card's firmware, thereby making sure it wouldn't try to boot from the card. Might be worth trying something similar. :)
 
I had the same issue. I had to set the bios on the M1015 so it was not bootable. I forget the setting but it had to do with only being available to the OS and not to the bios. Worked like a charm.
 
But he is trying to boot from the card, so that complicates things. Why not put that drive on the mobo ?
 
Two things come to mind.
You have to set the boot drive in web bios
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And tell the pc bios to boot the add in card first (which is probably already set since you installed there first)
 
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