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September 12th, 2025 18:49
Issue Booting ONIE Recovery USB on Switch S4048 ON
Hello Team,
I am attempting to recover a corrupted ONIE system on a switch by using a USB drive prepared with the ONIE recovery image.
However, when I select the USB drive as the boot device, the system fails to start and generates the following error:
!!!! X64 Exception Type - 0000000000000002 CPU Apic ID - 00000000 !!!!
RIP - 00000000BE8EC277, CS - 0000000000000038, RFLAGS - 0000000000000246
RAX - 000000000000000D, RCX - 0000000000000000, RDX - 0000000000000070
RBX - 0000000000000001, RSP - 00000000BF780938, RBP - 0000000000000000
RSI - 00000000BD327018, RDI - 0000000000000001
R8 - 0000000000000070, R9 - 0000000000000000, R10 - 0000000000000001
R11 - 00000000BF780A58, R12 - 0000000000000000, R13 - 00000000B3BAC498
R14 - 0000000000000000, R15 - 0000000000000001
DS - 0000000000000030, ES - 0000000000000030, FS - 0000000000000030
GS - 0000000000000030, SS - 0000000000000030
CR0 - 0000000080000013, CR2 - 0000000000000000, CR3 - 00000000BF63F000
CR4 - 0000000000000668, CR8 - 0000000000000000
DR0 - 0000000000000000, DR1 - 0000000000000000, DR2 - 0000000000000000
DR3 - 0000000000000000, DR6 - 00000000FFFF0FF0, DR7 - 0000000000000400
GDTR - 00000000BE93BDF0 0000000000000047, LDTR - 0000000000000000
IDTR - 00000000BDB60018 0000000000000FFF, TR - 0000000000000000
FXSAVE_STATE - 00000000BF7805A0
!!!! Find PE image (No PDB) (ImageBase=00000000BE8EA000, EntryPoint=00000000BE8EA900) !!!!
DELL-Marco B
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September 15th, 2025 07:35
Hello,
can you try to recreate ONIE Recovery USB Properly)
Dell Networking- How to Create an ONIE Recovery Live Disk | Dell US
thanks
Massili
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September 15th, 2025 08:48
@DELL-Marco B Hello;
Yes, this is the procedure I followed, but I still have the same problem. I don’t know if it’s related to the BIOS or the EFI shell, and I also can’t find the recovery PXE file on Dell’s website to test the recovery over PXE.
Regards.
YashSmith
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September 16th, 2025 09:10
First, confirm the USB is created correctly. ONIE recovery requires a bootable FAT32 USB with the ONIE installer image. Use tools like Rufus or
ddto write the image properly—simply copying files won’t work.Massili
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September 17th, 2025 08:57
@YashSmith “The USB has been tested on another switch, and it works fine; but still having the same error on that switch
Regards.
Massili
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September 17th, 2025 22:10
@DELL-Marco B additional information:
When I prepare a USB drive with the official ONIE image for the S4048-ON, Rufus only allows me to create the media in Legacy/MBR mode. The switch tries to boot, but I encounter errors and ONIE does not start.
However, when I test using the ONIE image for a Dell EMC S4100 (which targets the same Intel C2338 CPU), Rufus allows me to prepare the USB in UEFI + GPT mode, and the switch successfully boots into ONIE.
Unfortunately, I cannot proceed with the installation because the image is not for my model (S4048-ON).
This leads me to believe that the official ONIE image for the S4048-ON does not support UEFI boot, while the hardware itself seems to accept it.
Massili
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September 22nd, 2025 08:00
@DELL-Marco B hello;
Any advice to resolve this issue?
Regards.