Mac bake bootable usb for dell install#

Install a program that will properly format a USB drive to adhere to the Dell PowerEdge new standards.This solution is suggested as a last resort because this means the hardware will only recognize 2TB of drives usage and would prevent the source from exceeding 2TB usable space.

The source also recommends setting the boot settings to BIOS instead of UEFI.

While the source in the article recommends this as a solution, our technician said that the OS is too large to put on a DVD.

The source recommends creating a DVD of the OS.

Thankfully, there are several solutions that can resolve this issue. Then, he contacted Dell Support who told him that Dell PowerEdge T430’s out of the box BIOS 2.4.2 build doesn’t support UEFI on USB Drives. The source attempted several solutions that failed. Every time an attempt was made to install, an error message occurred stating, “no bootable media.”Īlthough the source and our technician were installing on different server models, the solution is workable on both.

Unlike our technician who was installing on a T130, the source couldn’t install Windows Server 2016 OS onto a PowerEdge T430 via USB.

When searching for a solution, he turned to the helpful article below: One of our senior network engineers recently came across a basic Windows 2016 installation issue on a Dell T130.