Howdy! I was recently inspired to take my home lab and server game to the next level and move from an old window 7 server to a rack mounted Dell VxRail E560 PowerEdge R640 with 64Gb of ECC RAM and 1x (considering filling the second slot down the road) Xeon Gold 6138 and one Samsung 980gb SSD. Looking for some help getting windows server running so I can run some VMs and docker container labs to study with.
I cannot seem to get the system to recognize the ISO for windows server 2019 or 2022 through the boot menu. I’ve also tried a ISO of EVE NG just to give it a shot. while the system is going through the boot menu when it gets to the usb boot option it fails and I’m not sure why.
When I attempt to go through the OS deployment tool in the lifecycle Controller and get to the detect installation media step there is no drop down.
What I’ve tried: updating Idac9 and other drivers/firmware, tried a few usb 2.0 and 3.0 drives and formatted them to NTFS.
did you reset the UEFI to default?
Enable secure boot?
Disable legacy boot? (done with the above enabling of secure boot)
Are you using the official iso from Microsoft ripped to a drive using the media creation tool or Rufus?
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Thank you for the reply!
I did reset the UEFI to default, enabled tpm 2.0 (for widows server 2022), enabled secure boot, and I got the ISO direct from the windows website.
Disable pxe boot and booting from all other devices?
Put UEFI USB boot at the top?
What did you use to make your bootable iso?
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I’ve got UEFI USB boot at the top, haven’t tried disabling the other options yet, will give it a shot here in just a sec. I haven’t used anything other than just downloading the iso from the windows website. What would be a good tool for this task?
If you just need a one off: Rufus
If you want to have the ability to boot to various iso’s and do not mind another secure boot enrolled: Ventoy
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Looks like that was what I needed, Thank you kindly!
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