Perc 4/dc information – Dell PowerEdge 7250 User Manual
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Figure 1-1.
Location of Certificate of Authenticity
PERC 4/DC Information
Important Partition Installation Guidelines
For systems with a PERC 4/DC card installed and no operating system installed, do not set up any
drive partitions before installing the operating system partition or service partition. If any partitions
are already set up, use dskpartx clean to remove them (this EFI utility is located on the resource
CD supplied with your system).
Although the dskpartx utility will remove the partitions more quickly, you can also use the
controller’s BIOS Configuration Utility to remove the partitions:
1
To run the BIOS Configuration Utility, press <Ctrl><m> during system startup.
2
From the Management menu, select Configure, and then click Clear Configuration
→
Yes to
remove the configuration.
3
To clear the drives, select Clear, select all drives, and then press <F10>.
The process may take one hour or more to complete.
After removing the partitions, follow these guidelines to install the operating system and set up
new partitions:
•
For systems that will use the Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition operating system, install
the service partition before installing the operating system
certificate of authenticity
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