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Poweredge R610 Legacy BIOS USB support ; contents of USB drive being ignored (works with UEFI mode)
My R610 can 'see' the USB stick (regardless of which ports it is plugged into), however if I am in BIOS boot mode, even if I select to boot from the stick manually, it does nothing and carries onto Windows.
If I switch to UEFI boot mode, the USB stick contents are loaded.
This is problematic for me because my RAID array/current Windows Server installation was via Legacy BIOS not UEFI. I need to do some repairs using the Window Server image, but of course cannot because it won't boot.
Is there a setting I've missed?
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DELL-Daniel My
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March 31st, 2017 17:00
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Make sure that the USB device is formatted as FAT32. I don't think it can read anything other than FAT16 or FAT32 in BIOS boot mode.
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April 3rd, 2017 02:00
ok Daniel, I will try that.
I couldn't imagine that my Windows Server image was put on a USB that was FAT32, but if that's what it takes I will give it a whirl.