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rlb2281

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July 29th, 2003 13:00

Boot from USB Memory Drive

Hello.  I am a co-op student with UPS.  I want to be able to boot from a USB pen drive that I have (256MB).  The drive is bootable, but I don't seem to be able to select "Boot from USB" in BIOS on the PowerEdge 2650.  Is there an updated BIOS version that allows boots from USB?  If not, are there plans for one?

Thanks,

Becky Barthlow

 

Corsair09

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July 29th, 2003 17:00

Funny.. I tried to do the same thing this morning.  I am trying to boot from USB so I can make a Ghost image of a hard to replicate server.  Could not boot directly from USB, nor could my Ghost USB enabled boot disk "see" the USB controller.  It seems to me that the 2650 does not activate the USB controller until the system is booting into Windows 2000.  Does ANYONE know how to boot these servers from USB?

DELL-Mark A

2.5K Posts

July 30th, 2003 14:00

Hi Becky,

At this time no PowerEdge Server except the PowerEdge 1655MC blade server has the capability to "Boot from USB". I do not know if the capability is planned in an upgrade for other systems.

hpu

8 Posts

July 31st, 2003 19:00

Does 400SC support boot from USB ?

OliverAaltonen

10 Posts

August 19th, 2003 23:00

Yes. I booted my 400SC off a Lexar JumpDrive 128MB.

srstark

20 Posts

June 29th, 2005 12:00

Oliver, please tell us how you booted your 400SC from USB drive.

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