N-able Backup: Bare Metal Recovery not booting on HP ProLiant ML 30 Gen 9 server

Last Modified

Fri Sep 13 10:18 GMT 2019

Description

  • Bare Metal Recovery not booting on HP ProLiant ML 30 Gen 9 server

Environment

  • N-able Backup
  • Bare Metal Recovery
  • Windows NT 10.0 kernel

Solution

  1. Download and install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) from here
    • Please note: You will be required to download the Windows ADK and the Windows PE add-on for the ADK.
  2. Install toolkit
    • The only required features are Deployment Tools and Windows Preinstallation Environment
  3. Download CAB update file from here and save to C:\cab
  4. (Optional) If using RAID configuration, download raid controller drivers for server from HP and save to C:\drivers
  5. Create Bare Metal Recovery USB stick with Bare Metal Recovery tool from here (instructions on how to create the stick are here)
  6. Extract the content of the Bare Metal Recovery stick using an archive tool (such as 7-Zip) into C:\winpe
  7. Run Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment as administrator
    • Right-click shortcut > Run as administrator
  8. Run these commands from Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment command prompt window:
    1. Dism /Mount-WIM /WimFile:C:\winpe\sources\boot.wim /index:1 /MountDir:C:\winpe\mount\
    2. Dism /Add-Package /Image:C:\winpe\mount /PackagePath:C:\cab\Windows10.0-KB4056892-x64.cab
    3. Dism /image:c:\winpe\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\drivers /Recurse
    4. Dism /unmount-wim /Mountdir:C:\winpe\mount /commit
  9. Save C:\winpe back to BMR stick and use to boot server