Well it didn’t come with a manual, but after searching I found that you can’t install anything to the MBR, or it fubar’s the system partition.
I tried to “fix” the partition, but the smartstart CD said that it couldn’t access the system partition to restore it.
Isn’t that the point of restoring it ?
So, Another system erase later, we have a Linux booting Compaq Proliant 1850R with a working system partition (and a disabled F1 prompt, yay !)
On a sidenote, It seems not to be able to shutdown, I have read that alot of people have been having this problem, I am “investigating” it now, hopefully I will have an answer in a few hours (I do have work to do as well)