StarWind Software

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2026 12:59 pm**

Hi All,

New to his, I'm trying to get VSAN Free working on a Dell R640 server with a S140 Raid controller.

I have two raid 1's setup, one for the os and one for the san share

The issue i have is it doesn't boot after i install the software onto the smaller raid 1, it sees both raids and installs fine, but when i restart it just says booting from C failed

I've tried lots of things and am now at a lose, any ideas please?

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2026 1:25 pm**

Welcome to StarWind Forum.
Did you install StarWind VSAN in a Windows system? If so, I guess it will be much easier to reinstall Windows.

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2026 1:51 pm**

Thanks for the reply

Nope, barebones, so linux version

I have the boot mode set to bios

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2026 2:14 pm**

Make sure to enable legacy mode https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... al-server/.

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2026 3:12 pm**

It looks like it doesn't like the raid 1 virtual disk, if i just install on one of the ssd drives it boot fine....

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2026 3:51 pm**

Strange... Is it 4k or 512b?

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2026 11:55 am**

FYI i changed the raid controller from the S140 (which i believe is a software raid) to a H730p (which is hardware raid) and it worked strange away.

I'm assuming creating the raid on the hardware raid is the way to go?

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2026 1:41 pm**

Yes, hardware RAID could be much easier to handle.

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