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Re: stretch hd-media - boot error for USB-FDD on S5000PAL



On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:56:41AM +0300, dbsubscribe@mail.ru wrote:
> I use the server on S5000PAL. For remote reinstallation of system to me
> it is necessary to choose in BIOS for USB disks the Force FDD mode. It
> will allow to consider USB the separate device and allows to choose him
> at single loadings on this version of BIOS.
> 
> I use a loading image
> stretch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz.
> 
> The image is copied on usb a disk through dd. The section 1Gb turns
> out. 
> 
> When loading with USB the message of "Boot error" is given at once
> 
> I have tried to zapusat releases of boot.img.gz for the previous dates
> and only the release from 20160106 was loaded without problems. 
> 
> The image of hd-media of the jessie distribution kit is loaded without
> problems. 

In floppy mode?

> BIOS servers it is updated to the latest version. 
> 
> Use of USB on this server works in the HDD mode, but demands
> indications of an order of loading in the list of HDD devices. And to
> use USB for single loading it is impossible.

The hdmedia has a partition table and expects to be booted as a harddisk.
Making it a floppy can't possibly be expected to work since floppy
booting is totally different than hard disk booting.

That is not a way to solve boot problems.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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