I have a pair of 2950's that cannot boot from a usb flash drive I have created. Both servers have the latest BIOS installed (2.6.2 I think). One is an original 2950, the other is a 2950-III. If I use the flash drive in one of our 1850's it boots up fine and appears to work correctly so I know the flash drive itself is fine. I have also tried another larger flash drive with the same results.

I have tried messing with all the BIOS settings I could find, even going as far as disabling all peripherals (RAID, DRAC, etc) or even physically removing them from the system. The only thing I encountered that might explain this is the USB Emulation setting. No matter what I do it ALWAYS gets stuck on the FLOPPY setting. I have a hunch that getting it to stick to AUTO or HARD DRIVE will make the flash drive work fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on what the problem could be or how to do a full factory reset of the BIOS (in case some old setting is getting it stuck)?

Thanks