During POST server is giving the error "failed to find the bootable device, retrying....

[vivekkporwal]

I have a CISCO (UCS C220 M3) server, which was running with WINDOWS 2008 R2 OS. In earlier days, when the server was running, I took the offline backup of the server and the backup had completed successfully. One day, I and my one colleague thought that we have the offline backup of the servers, that backups would be working or not. So, for testing purpose, we just chose a server running on network, but not in network production and restore the backup on the server without any array re-configuration or RAID re-configuration. Restoration process got completed successfully. After restoration, the server is giving the error message "failed to find bootable devices, retrying..."

After that, I checked then server and I got the HDDs and RAID configuration are showing during POST of the server, but in CISCO Integrated Management Console (CIMC), the HDDs or RAID configuration are not showing.

Please suggest us, what we can do to resolve the issue.

[Kirk J]

If you are using the onboard ICH10/Mega_SR controller, then that is expected, as that does not provide out of band management communication that would allow the CIMC to poll and configure it.  All configuration is done using the POST time Option ROM triggered with Cntrl + M  See https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C220/install/C220/raid.html#88713

The boot order, depending on firmware version, should be pointing to embedded lun.

Kirk...

[vivekkporwal]

Hi Kirk J,

Thanks for your reply.

Here I am using LSI MegaRAID onboard controller for RAID configuration, and I have checked the RAID configuration. There is no any issue found.

I am facing the issue that 'No SDCards available in the slot' and HDDs are also not detected by server. Snaps are attached here for reference.

[Kirk J]

Everything your screen captures have shown is expected, based on your config (you don't have SD cards, and the onboard controller won't be seen in the CIMC).

If your POST time mega_SR option rom shows the drives and virtual drive still healthy, then I am making the assumption that your restore process had an issue and did not correctly write out the boot sector/MBR.

You may want to try booting a Windows server 2008R2 install ISO, and use the 'repair your computer' option.

Seems like there were some options you could type like "bootrec /rebuildbcd'

Kirk...