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Questions tagged [usb-boot]

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Unattended installation of Ubuntu from USB drive -- Not mounted correctly

I'm doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). In some cases, the USB drive is incorrectly mounted on /media instead of /cdrom, making the installation…
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Can't get my proliant N54l to boot from USB

I was trying to install ubuntu 14. onto a usb stick. It booted fine from the USB and I went through the process for a while until I got to the partitioning bit, I was thinking maybe the install was in memory because it gave me the option of…
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Is there a better workaround or solution to boot a Proliant DL380 Gen8 from USB DVD drive than "Restore Default System Settings"?

An HP Proliant DL380e Gen8 BIOS P73 (03/01/2013) using iLO4 suffers from USB CD/DVD drive boot issues after a reboot, as described in HP Advisory c02707749. External USB DVD drive details are: Product ID: 0x0719 Vendor ID: 0x05e3 (Genesys…
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PXE boot from USB NIC

Is there a USB solution to PXE boot? I want to use ghost or clonezilla or something to image a bunch of units that don't have on board ethernet, and no clear real way to add to it.
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USB Flash Drive unbootable on IBM/Lenovo x3850 X5

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: …
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HP Proliant DL360 G7 Wont Boot from USB

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.
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Drawbacks of installing linux on usb stick?

I am setting up a router/nas/http/whatever server based on an ION mini-ITX board. I've installed Ubuntu Server on an old 160 GB drive, but it generates a lot more heat and vibrates more than my other new drive (storage). It just doesn't fit the…
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RHEL 7.6 - Bootable USB created with kickstart only works on the system it was created on

[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…
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Booting a usb windows to go drive from hyper v

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…
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fdisk and parted won't work on a USB stick with Fedora 23 alpha 2 x86_64

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…
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Installing Hyper-V 2012 R2 to USB gives INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error

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…
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Blank MDT 2013 boot screen on USB Deployment

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…
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BOOT OS from a remote drive ? hard disk drive security

SUMMARY I have a third party requirement to run an operating system from a remote secured disk. The user is concerned about hard disk security but is not concerned about the risk to the remaining hardware. At this stage I am not aware which OS…
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Error while installing Windows Server 2008 64 Bit version from a USB Flash Drive

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…
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best WDS alternative

I'm looking for some way to capture an image of a PC after I run a sysprep - a lot like WDS but without networking on the PC. So instead of the network part it would be possible to (with an easy wizard like on WDS) create an image of the PC to a USB…
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