ARIMA HDAMA G Bios upgrade to allow Server 2008

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by dogzdinner, Dec 10, 2009.

  1. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    No, it's the BIOS itself. Let me see if I can compare the HDAMA-revG 2.17 and 2.18 BIOSes and see if anything jumps out.
     
  2. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    What do you have available? Can you burn an ISO image to a CD?
     
  3. Scottrock

    Scottrock MDL Novice

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    Hi Guys,

    I would just like to say a LARGE and completely sincere Thank You to all who have participated in this thread.
    Without your help I would not have got my HDAMA-G Rackable systems box up and running with a custom install of Windows Home Server (Vail - 64bit beta release - based on Server 2008).

    Cheers!
     
  4. asdas

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    yeah i can burn a iso i got cds
     
  5. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    Before I build you an ISO image, which Opteron processors do you have? Are you interested in PowerNow support?
     
  6. asdas

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    dont realy need powernow support i got dual AMD Opteron OSA250FAA5BL 250 2.4Ghz Cpus
     
  7. asdas

    asdas MDL Novice

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    ill give it ago let you know if it works
     
  8. asdas

    asdas MDL Novice

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    i used magic iso to burn the bios iso onto a cd-rw no luck its not booting iv made bootable disks before is there anything else i need/did wrong?
     
  9. asdas

    asdas MDL Novice

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    just tried imgburn says invalid or unsupported image file format
     
  10. Crazziee99

    Crazziee99 MDL Novice

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    Do you have a USB thumb drive? If so use that. Format and make it bootable using the HP format tool. You will need some windows 98 boot files as well. Think you can get them from bootdisk.com

    Then just set your bios to boot from USB drive first.
     
  11. asdas

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    checked on bootdisk.com couldnt see what file to use and just wondering what makes hp format tool diffrent?
     
  12. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    #256 tqhoang, Jul 3, 2010
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    Make sure the ISO image didn't get corrupted. If you install HashTab, you can easily check the MD5 or SHA-1 or SHA-256 checksums.

    Checksums for HDAMAG_BIOS_218.ISO
    Code:
    MD5  C3BC5F1497BA3649C1918C062D5F1D48
    SHA-1  F783CE1DBCBCF867AD5E4B3DCBA7F0635B4CF2A1
    SHA-256  6F9F005BEAC37FFCD4200CE6E1EBC9CE5EE90091431569A62C450BB35F1F3CC2
     
  13. Crazziee99

    Crazziee99 MDL Novice

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    No Imissed it, Thanks I will try when i get into work on monday. I hope it works.

    Will report back and let you know how it goes.

    thanks again.
     
  14. asdas

    asdas MDL Novice

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    i used hashtab this is what i got

    CRC32: D6CF9592
    MD5: 4AAC0A5F7D71F062D0B394882754E1E8
    SHA-1: FC9C59743DC1D0B40AD38425DBD1E8AFDDD7CCBA