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February 25th, 2011 12:00

PowerEdge 2850 Boot to USB

  I was just recently given some PowerEdge 2850 servers and need to install Windoes 2008 on them.  They do not have DVD drives so I made a bootable USB thumb drive.  I have been able to use the thumbdirve to install Windows on other machines, but I am not able to get these 2850's to even attempt to boot to the USB drive.

  I have gone into the BIOS and set the USB Controller to 'On with BIOS support'.  I've tried each of the three available USB Emulation types and none seem to work.  Also, I have seen some web pages that describe that the USB drive would appear the boot sequence selection, but it does not.

Any suggestions?

Alex