Well, when we want to start the installing SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2013 foundation in Windows Server 2012 R2 there is more often problem comes that the pre-requisite didn’t run in the in Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. There is due to because the pre- requisite is searching for the SeverManagerCmd.exe in Windows/System32 location, instead of that in R2 version the application name is SeverManager.exe.
So, to run the pre-requisite in Windows Server 2012 R2, Copy the SeverManager.exe, and paste in the same location i.e Windows/System32 and rename to SeverManagerCmd.exe. Then run the pre-requisite application from SharePoint iso/disc/installer. It will work fine
