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hp proliant - Why doesn't the Internal USB port boot ESXi 6 on my Microserver Gen8?

I'm trying to run ESXi 6 off the Internal USB 2.0 port on a HP Microserver Gen8. No matter what I try it will not make any attempt to boot the internal USB to load the hypervisor.



I installed ESXi 6 with the customised ProLiant HP image (Jan 2016). The steps I took to do this was burn the ISO to a CD and installed it to a 8 GB Transcend while it was plugged into the internal USB slot of the Microserver Gen8. I pulled all SATA drives before installing. The ESXi setup detected the USB drive no problem and installed without an issues. Upon rebooting it doesn't boot from it at all.




I checked my BIOS and all the USB related options appear to be correct:




  • USB Enabled - Enabled

  • USB Boot Support - Enabled

  • Main Boot order - USB DriveKey is set to first priority

  • Internal drives boot priority - USB DriveKey first

  • USB Enumeration - Enabled




To confirm the USB stick is working I pulled it out of the Microserver Gen8 and booted it on a laptop, which booted no problem.



I had the same problem with another USB drive but thought it might just be bad luck for compatibility, however two USB drives doing the same thing seems a little bit suspect.



What am I missing that's preventing the USB drive from booting on the Microserver Gen8 when using the internal port?

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