Booting: this page is retired for v10 on left for reference only
Server Booting
This article describes the booting process of SME Server.
Installation
When booting from the installation CD you will get a boot prompt where you can simply press enter to start the standard installation (or upgrade) routine. On i586 (e.g. VIA C3) based machines type smei586 and press enter.
After showing the boot prompt for some time SME will start the installation process automatically. It will then afford you the opportunity to test the installation medium.
Boot Options
You can use the function keys F1 to F5 to get more information about different boot options.
Installer Boot Options
- To install SME without software RAID type
sme noraid
- To install SME without a logical volume manager type
sme nolvm
- If you are sure you want only RAID 1 you can force the installer to do so by typing
sme raid1
- In case you have 3 or more hard disks in your server and don't want to have a spare disk you can type
sme nospare
- If you want to have /, /tmp, /var, /home/e-smith/files and swap on seperate partitions type
sme multipart
- If you have a driver disk type
sme dd
- To enable the rescue mode type
sme rescue
General Boot Help
Certain hardware configurations may have trouble with the automatic hardware detection done during the installation. If you experience problems during the installation, restart the installation adding the noprobe option. With the standard installation that would be
sme noprobe
or e.g. if you don't want a software RAID:
sme noraid noprobe
and so on.
More
Some problems with booting that cannot or will not be fixed through development of SME7 and solutions how to bypass them can be found here.