Re: LG Smart Recovery Center.iso
Ted Brathwaite
After searching the web in vain I found a LG X120 Notebook I had which still had a partition that contained the LG SMART RECOVERY software. I tested it and it appears to be standalone software that lets you recover from the LG RECOVERY partition OR from the LG RECOVERY DISK.
Here is the LG-Smart-Recovery Software. Just download onto the machine you want to use it on (yes, this means you will need to install an operating system at least temporarily to run the software).
Hi. I had to install on a new hard disk with new Windows as well and that did function without problem. I would call LG and ask them what to do if this does not work for you, sorry I can not be of more assistance.
I have download your LG smart recovery software but it just support a .LSI format for backup files. I have LG-c400 and my backup files have .wsi and .dsi file formats. Can you please provide a recovery with said file formats.
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i tried to enter "intelligent privsioning" by pressing "f10"-key: this brings me to a screen where i can choose between "self update" and "fallback". fallback seems to be a bootloader entry that tries to boot a linux kernel that ends up after 1.1seconds in a kernel panic as it was not able to mount root filesystem and "self update" boots a working linux kernel that tries to install a gaius.3.50-100.x86_64.rpm. i assume it therefore needs network connectivity so i connected (the first) ethernet port to a standard "home-network (dhcp), nat" but it stalls keep saying it installs that rpm file (has been running for days without changing any status).
HPE, first. please provide a better web portal that clearly describes which downloadable files (bios, intelligent provisioning, ...) should be used in order to update the system (have a look at supermicro.com how this could be achieved). and btw, please speed up your webservers....
HPE, please provide driver downloads for customers that do not want to relay on your propritary "intelligent provisioning" (that breaks) in order to still enable classic installs (just by inserting dvd/usb and running a clean install)
HPE, please provide more status and esp. progress ouput if you try to download files programatically by your setup scripts. running a download without asking for network connectivity and then trying to downloading a file that is about half gigabyte in size without displaying progress is sooo 1990. we're in 2021 now.
HPE, first, i ordered this server w/o iLO 5 enable pci express card, as it was hard to me (even if we do servers since 1995) to fire out that iLO won't work without this card, so i assumed iLO will work (but will not have a dedicated ethernet port, so shared among others). it's even possible to configure network (ip, subnet, gateway, ...) within iLO bios config but .... the configuration gets lost without a single note that you have to buy that enabler pci express card. HPE, it took me half a day to figure out that it's not that buggy as "intelligent provisioning" but you want me to pay $100 extra to persist my network config within iLO. you can have $200 if you disable iLO option within bios saying "put some more money in to get this feature activated"
HPE, never ever again a microserver. it's my 4th in the last decade and its still pain/ass. why can't you go slimmer? why "intelligent provisioning"? i'd like to run a raid setup within ncurses-like mode, no embedded web-browser that tries to hide some htpp://localhost services.
I've tried to update firmware via Intelligent Provisioning. The progress bar was stuck at 20% for 20-30 minutes, just saying "Downloading", and suddenly finished and asked me to reboot. Now I've rebooted, and got the same options as you "Self update" or "Fallback". I chose "Self update", and now I'm waiting for "gaius-3.50-100.x86_64.rpm to install, but I have no progress bar.
i had expected to quickly install a native version of windows server 2019, as this is the current server os from microsoft but without having a usable version of "intelligent provisioning" one has to run a classic install but cannot use smart array features as raid1, which sucks, of course.
i lost about half a day trying to set an ilo ip address which is actually possible but then looses it's configuration after reboot. after playing some hours i figured out that one has to buy that ilo enabler pci express card, which is totally ok so it's ok to spend some more money to get ilo remote console BUT its totaly inacceptable to provide configuration options to users and tell the users "config saved, please reboot" (or similar) and then do not persist configuration. i spent hours to figure out that this is a (anti) "feature", not a bug.
nevertheless, i resolved that issue today: as linux-only user i created the usb key from the "media recovery usb key" with gnu dd, which actually boots and shows progress bar: so i assumed the stick was created correctly but i then figured out that hpe has it's own tool for creating usb keys from iso files: it's called "hp usb key utility". i could not find a single hint one has to use that tool in order to create that usb key, even it's not mentioned in the download notes.
HPE, please FIX YOUR TOOLS. provide linux tools to create usb key. provide better descriptions in your downloads, provide scripts that work: display progress, display what's goin' on, diplay success or error messages. recovering "intelligent provisioning" does not result in an error or success message: your recovery script just reboots after completing.
after days of trouble i ask myself what's so hard in providing a slim, fast (static?) website that just holds .bin (bios, raid controller, ...) firmware/bios files that can be put on fatXX based usb keys and read by legacy bios or even uefi setups? why would one have to boot a linux kernel to open up a browser that communicates with ilo to configure a raid1 drive? for me it seems that HPE addresses "hobbyists" who "need" support in installing a operating system: i'd like to stay with vendors that allow me vanilla installations of o/s and provide device drivers to provide hardware support: i dislike broken tools that prevent installing o/s or patch files in install media just to speedup o/s installation which is not true for most of the o/s i use. never ever had to use days to setup a plain windows server on a raid1 array.
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