I have a Dell PowerEdge SC1435 that has come back after doing duty at a partner site. I am trying to configure it for local use. The only problem I have with it is that every time it boots it always requres a manual F1 press after the POST sequence.
The last thing it does is give me the opportunity to configure the BMC, and then it says:
Press F1 to continue or press F2 for Setup
It will wait there forever (well, at least an hour). Pressing F1 starts the OS booting.
I can't see the setting in the BIOS which controls this and I can't find it in the documentation.
What am I missing?
I have a RAID option. As a result, the SATA drives are connected to the RAID card and not the motherboard.
The first thing it complains about at boot time, immediately after the Dell splash screen but before the rest of the POST, is:
Going into the BIOS and changing the SATA devices from AUTO to OFF removed these two errors, and now the computer boots through properly.
Normally when I see this behavior it's due to a dead bios battery. So everytime the machine boots it wants you to go into the bios to setup things.
This is complaining about the BMC so have you tried to go into it and set it up properly or at least go in there and save the configuration it has currently. If that doesn't work look to see if the BMC has it's own battery. If so I would replace it try again.
I went through several forums trying to find an answer for this. I tried several of the suggestions but what ended up working for me was disabling IDE. I noticed that I was also getting a "CD-ROM failed to load" message and so figured I didn't need it anyway. After this the F1, F2 prompt went away. Hope this helps someone.