I have a Dell R230. I’m trying to install FreeNAS 11.3 and use an USB stick as boot medium. I tried three different USB sticks (all of which work for booting on other computers): – Kingston DTSE9 G2 USB 3.0 32GB – SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 32GB – Samsung Bar Plus USB 3.1 32GB … Read more
I’m trying to add some commands to a PE Windows that is booted from USB. I found this: Windows PE autorun scripts, saying that the “autoexec.bat” equivalent can be found here: \Windows\System32\startnet.cmd When I add commands to startnet.cmd, they are however not executed. I have also searched the Registry of this PE system, but it … Read more
Is it possible to issue a reboot command in Ubuntu Server that triggers boot from USB or PXE after reboot? Basically it’s a headless system and I would like to run a backup tool without having to hookup a screen/keyboard to it. When the backup tool loaded I can SSH into it and run the … Read more
Have a couple of IBM xSeries x3250s that did not come with a CD/DVD drive. Searching around, not seeing anything tangible as far as for as a USB bootable version of ServerGuide. Any ideas? Answer If you have an RSA/IMM card, you could mount the install media remotely AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : … Read more
While attempting to install Ubuntu on a 32-bit Windows XP netbook, the partition resize operation failed due to inconsistencies in the NTFS filesystem (lesson learned: run chkdsk /f in Windows before trying to resize a partition in Linux). Now the installer only gives the option to replace Windows with Ubuntu, the partition can’t be resized … Read more
I’m running Vmware ESXI from the internal USB. No matter how many times I persist the boot order so that the server boots from the internal USB, the server starts up with a blinking line cursor and does nothing. However if during the preboot I press F12 and then select the internal USB, it successfully … Read more
I have a ESXi 5.5 host server where i need to build a Xubuntu Server, my bandwidth limits me from sharing the ISO over the LAN, and my host server does not have a CD/DVD drive. so is it possible to make the VM booting off the external USB which is connected to the server … Read more
I am attempting to do refreshes on some machines and on the bootup of a USB drive with a LiteTouch Image I get to the Microsoft Solutions Accelerators screen but I do not get a window for actions. I burned the ISO file to the USB drive as an NFTS. How do I go about … Read more
So I burned a Fedora 23 alpha 2 on a 16GB USB stick through dd if=path/to/fedora.iso of=/dev/usb_device bs=512 I used bs=512 because the sectors on the stick are 512 bytes. Opening the stick in fdisk gives me the warning: WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on ‘/dev/xvdi’! The util fdisk doesn’t support GPT. Use GNU … Read more
A server restart produced this output on the console: ZFS: i/o error – all block copies unavailable ZFS: failed to read pool zroot directory object qptzfsboot: failed to mount default pool zroot FreeBSD/x86 boot ZFS: i/o error – all block copies unavailable ZFS: can’t fild dataset 0 Default: zroot/<0x0> boot: I booted the host from … Read more
