USB as a Main Storage device
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@scottalanmiller Haha, funny story... The server now locks up when trying to enter that part of the UEFI. Tried 3 times.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Haha, funny story... The server now locks up when trying to enter that part of the UEFI. Tried 3 times.
System reset!
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@Dashrender said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Haha, funny story... The server now locks up when trying to enter that part of the UEFI. Tried 3 times.
System reset!
Each one of those three times was with a full system Reset.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@Dashrender said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Haha, funny story... The server now locks up when trying to enter that part of the UEFI. Tried 3 times.
System reset!
Each one of those three times was with a full system Reset.
Not what I meant - time to reset the BIOS/UEFI, not just a system reboot - aka default all values and start over.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller Haha, funny story... The server now locks up when trying to enter that part of the UEFI. Tried 3 times.
Just wonderful.
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@Dashrender Oh, so flash the BIOS?
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@Dashrender Oh, so flash the BIOS?
That's not a bad idea. Was it fully updated before?
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@scottalanmiller , @coliver Yes, it was.
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Hate to ask this question because I have heard horror stories, but is your bios/server firmware at the most current version? I've seen in the past where updating has fixed odd bios issues.
Edit: @scottalanmiller beat me to it.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@Dashrender Oh, so flash the BIOS?
You could try that, but no - normally in the BIOS you have an option to 'set default settings' this will remove any changes you've made, then you reboot and start over tweeking the BIOS.
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@Dashrender said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
@Dashrender Oh, so flash the BIOS?
You could try that, but no - normally in the BIOS you have an option to 'set default settings' this will remove any changes you've made, then you reboot and start over tweeking the BIOS.
I might have to, I can't access the BIOS and the UEFI has now "Died", so I'm not sure what else to do.
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@coliver said:
Hate to ask this question because I have heard horror stories, but is your bios/server firmware at the most current version? I've seen in the past where updating has fixed odd bios issues.
Edit: @scottalanmiller beat me to it.
Outdated BIOS could easily be the issue.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
I might have to, I can't access the BIOS and the UEFI has now "Died", so I'm not sure what else to do.
Something is definitely, seriously wrong.
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@scottalanmiller I'm having it run a system diagnostic now. The UEFI unlocked on the 4th go, but there's no option to turn it off.
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Or, maybe it's just not supported.
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@art_of_shred said:
Or, maybe it's just not supported.
I guess I'm lost on what you are trying to do, exactly?
Are you trying to use a USB drive as a datastore for ESXi? or some other hypervisor?
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@Dashrender said:
@art_of_shred said:
Or, maybe it's just not supported.
I guess I'm lost on what you are trying to do, exactly?
Are you trying to use a USB drive as a datastore for ESXi? or some other hypervisor?
Exactly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@art_of_shred said:
Or, maybe it's just not supported.
I guess I'm lost on what you are trying to do, exactly?
Are you trying to use a USB drive as a datastore for ESXi? or some other hypervisor?
Exactly.
I don't think it's possible. I think you can use an external HDD like that, but not a flash drive.
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What's the problem? Does ESXi not see the drive as a place you could put a VMDK?
