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Title
Driver Injection for R710 Server BMR boot CD and Continuous reboot after BMR restore -
Description
Drive injection for R710 in the BMR boot cd for Windows 2012 R2
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Cause
- R710 drivers are not available for 2012 as these are built into 2012 server, hence why the driver injection will not work.
- Upon restore, the server will reboot, however the old driver in place might cause problems and preventing subsequent reboots.
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Resolution
When creating the ISO for performing a BMR of your R710, you will need to ensure that the network driver and the storage controller driver are both in the BootCD. The easiest way to do this is to use the Dell PowerEdge Driver Maintenance Pack -http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=189M2.
This provides you with all of the drivers for a wide variety of PowerEdge servers. If you inject the drivers from this pack, then you should be able to use this boot ISO with any of the PowerEdge servers you may have. That way you have a more universal boot cd.
Otherwise, you can just go to support.dell.com and enter the service tag to get access to the drivers for your machine. Once you do that, you need to confirm the storage controller and NIC type and download the proper drivers for your hardware. Once downloaded, you can inject those into the BootCD and then create the ISO and burn it to a CD.
The drivers are in an exe format. So to be able to inject them into the boot cd, you will need to extract them from the Exe. To do that, I recommend the free program 7zip. Use it to extract the exe to a folder. Once extracted, then zip up the entire folder. Once you have that zip file then you can use that in the BootCD creation wizard.
When you go to create the boot cd, you will browse to the core console | tools | boot CDs. Then click on the actions button and select create boot cd. In that wizard there is link to add drivers. Select the zip file you created and then click open. The core will then inject those drivers into the ISO image. Then you can burn that ISO image to disk.