Dell R620 not booting from USB

rhino albino

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Jul 26, 2018, 9:56:07 AM7/26/18

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The setup:

PowerEdge R620 Xeon E5-2637 dual core 192 GB ram 2 x 500 GB SATA PERC 5/e.

2 x MD1000 Enclosures, 13 1 TB SATA drives per enclosure. Currently 24 drives in RAID 50 with 1 hot spare per enclosure.

The raid configuration was from the last job it was doing and we're attempting to rebuild it from scratch with ESOS so we're not married to any particular RAID config going forward.

It is in UEFI boot mode, I triple checked and my USB boot drive is a FAT32 drive and does boot fine on the two Dell desktops I tested it on before attempting to install it on this server.

I tried using "Deploy OS" going through the Lifecycle controller from a suggestion on another forum and I get "No Media Found" no matter which OS I tell it it is.

I tried the normal UEFI bios boot, it shows up just fine in the boot list, then after I select it I immediately get "Boot failed. Make sure you are using compatible boot media."

Any tips my fellow IT friends?

Thanks!

Ryan

Chris Kostecki

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Jul 26, 2018, 10:17:51 AM7/26/18

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Ryan, I am running on older hardware, a Dell PE 2950. I had a similar issue. In the BIOS you probably need to force your USB stick to run as a hard drive instead of being auto-detected.

rhino albino

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Jul 26, 2018, 4:22:45 PM7/26/18

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Is that an iDrac function? Don't see it in the regular bios.

Chris Kostecki

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Jul 27, 2018, 10:12:34 AM7/27/18

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Unfortunately I don't have a 620 local to me to test it out.

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