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Unable to boot into USB on HP Proliant DL160 G5

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I recently purchased a used HP Proliant DL160 G5 to learn about servers and I am trying to install a fresh version of Windows Server via a USB installer. Unfortunately, I am unable to boot into my USB despite my efforts to make sure the USB has the highest boot priority (refer to below image). … Read more

Error while installing Windows Server 2008 64 Bit version from a USB Flash Drive

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I am trying to install Windows Server 2008 64 bit version from a USB flash drive. I have made the USB drive boot-able by looking at this link I have copied the content of the Windows Server 2008 64 bit iso image to the USB drive. Now I have made changes in BIOS setting to … Read more

Installing Hyper-V 2012 R2 to USB gives INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error

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I have created a bootable USB flash drive of Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Core following the guides here and here. When I boot my desktop PC from the USB drive it boots up fine (after a while) and I can log in. When I put the USB drive in my server tower and try … Read more

Booting a usb windows to go drive from hyper v

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I provisioned and made a bootable windows 10 to go drive using the instructions here http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Putting-Windows-8-on-a-USB-Drive and tried to boot it with a gen-2 vm by attatching it to the scsi controller as a physical hd But I get the error Boot failed. Efi SCSI device. PS – yes, the usb partition is offline – … Read more

RHEL 7.6 – Bootable USB created with kickstart only works on the system it was created on

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[Edit] I got it to work using this thread: https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1422213 The actual script was simlar to this: mkdir “/var/tmp/RHEL-7.6 Server.x86_64” # cd “/run/media/jradtke/RHEL-7.6 Server.x86_64” # cp -rPf * “/var/tmp/RHEL-7.6 Server.x86_64” # cd “/var/tmp/RHEL-7.7 Server.x86_64” # mkisofs -r -T -J -V “RHEL-7.7 Server.x86_64” \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -o /home/images/rhel-server-7.1-jr-x86_64-dvd.iso … Read more

HP Proliant DL360 G7 Wont Boot from USB

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Whenever I try to boot from a USB stick I get the Red Screen Of Death. I’ve tried to load VMWare, Windows and Linux from a bootable USB but nothing. Answer Reboot again. (cold Boot) Press F9 to enter the RBSU Check, if the „USB Boot Support“ is enabled. If not, enable it. Go to … Read more

USB Flash Drive unbootable on IBM/Lenovo x3850 X5

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Specs/Firmware: Server: IBM/Lenovo x3850 X5 (model: 7143B2G) IMM: YUOOH5A-1.55 (01/15/2018) UEFI: G0E188BUS-1.88 (05/29/2018) DSA: DSYTC5F-9.53 (02/17/2014) FPGA: G0UD92B-5.02 (03/26/2014) USB Flash Drivess: Maxell 32GB PNY 8GB Some noname 8GB Verbatim U3 Smart 4GB What I wished for: I want to boot a USB Flash Drive from internal USB. I want to run Alpine Linux in … Read more

How do I generate a bootable .iso file from a directory?

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Currently, I have selected a distribution of Linux that I like a lot and I have downloaded the .iso image which I can simply dd to an USB or CD media, etc… I would like to add some additional data to this installer image so that I do not have to bring both a installation … Read more