June 7, 201214 yr Hello forum- I have a friend that has bought pretty much the same components as me: ZOTAC GF6100-E-E AM3 SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B AMD Sempron 145 His first boot was just fine, got drives precleared, added to an array, etc. We had to shut his array down and reboot. Array shut down just fine, however the reboot failed at: verifying DMI Pool Data Update Success. And there it sits. The server will not boot. If he powers down, pulls the drives and reboots, he can get past this point, and can insert the drives and the server boots correctly. At first I thought it might be his add on pci drive controller, so i had him pull it and try booting again, and it fails at the same point. Pull the drives and she boots and the array starts and all works correctly. Has anyone seen anything like this?
June 7, 201214 yr Hello forum- I have a friend that has bought pretty much the same components as me: ZOTAC GF6100-E-E AM3 SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B AMD Sempron 145 His first boot was just fine, got drives precleared, added to an array, etc. We had to shut his array down and reboot. Array shut down just fine, however the reboot failed at: verifying DMI Pool Data Update Success. And there it sits. The server will not boot. If he powers down, pulls the drives and reboots, he can get past this point, and can insert the drives and the server boots correctly. At first I thought it might be his add on pci drive controller, so i had him pull it and try booting again, and it fails at the same point. Pull the drives and she boots and the array starts and all works correctly. Has anyone seen anything like this? Yes... some BIOS, in their attempt to assist you, assign a newly added drive as the BOOT device. odds are, your server is attempting to boot from one of your disks instead of the flash drive.
June 8, 201214 yr This is very common. Go into BIOS and reassign the USB flash drive as the first boot device. Disable all other boot devices.
June 8, 201214 yr Author I will check. I THOUGHT I had disabled all other boot devices, but its possible I didn't. Thanks guys!
June 8, 201214 yr Author OK, upon further research, I think i see the problem, but not sure how to fix. In the BIOS, under advanced BIOS features. His hard disk boot priority does not show the USB-HDD0 listed at all so that I cannot move it up into the top of the list. It is obviously ABLE to boot off of it since with drives pulled it boots. His thumb drive is brand name verbatim. Anyone have any ideas?
June 8, 201214 yr You can play with the USB drive emulation settings. Try HDD, FDD, etc. one at a time until you find one that works.
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