
The server used in the following example is an D元60.
Hp ilo 4 boot from virtual media update#

The problem description doesn’t really fit all that well either to my case but I tried cold booting the server as instructed. The article only mentions D元80p Gen8 servers but I imagine the same could apply to D元60p Gen8 or other servers as well. If a ProLiant D元80p Gen8 server fails to boot from an SD card or a USB device, cold boot the server to recover from this issue. If this occurs, the following message will be displayed: Non-System disk or disk error-replace and strike any key when readyĪny HP ProLiant D元80p Gen8 server with HP Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4). This issue can occur if the server is rebooted approximately every five minutes. In rare instances, a ProLiant D元80p Gen8 server may fail to boot from an SD card or a USB device after frequent reboots while Virtual Media is mounted in the HP Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4) Integrated Remote Console (IRC). HP Advisory: ProLiant D元80p Gen8 Server -Server May Fail to Boot From an SD Card or USB Device After Frequent Reboots While Virtual Media Is Mounted in the HP Integrated Lights-Out 4 (iLO 4) Integrated Remote Console (IRC) DESCRIPTION I first thought the SD card reader or SD card was faulty but after googling around for a while I stumbled upon this article: So the Illegal OpCode Red Screen of Death was probably the result of the server trying to force a boot from the local RAID array volume, which is a pure GPT VMFS5 volume without a proper boot partition. Just to make sure I wasn’t imagining things I booted an ESXi installation medium too and likewise, it didn’t detect the local SD card but only the local RAID controller volume: The USB bus was still ok, but lsusb showed no SD card reader device in the system at all! When attempting to mount the SD card USB drive from within the live Linux I noticed it was actually completely absent from the system.

I thought the updates corrupted the installation but that actually wasn’t the case.

Then I decided to boot a Linux live image, which worked fine, narrowing down the issue to the OS installation (device) itself. I reset the server several times via iLO but the issue persisted and I had no idea what exactly went bonkers here. Almost, because on one of the servers I ran into the following issue:Īfter rebooting the host, the BIOS POST completed fine and the Proliant D元60p Gen8 server should now boot the ESXi OS from it’s attached USB SD card where ESXi was installed but instead it displayed this unsightly screen telling something went very, very wrong: It can happen with Windows, Linux or any other OS as well as other boot media such as normal disks/RAID arrays, if the server has a problem booting from this device (broken boot sector/partition/boot loader etc).Ī couple of weeks ago I was updating a few HP Proliant D元60p Gen8 servers running ESXi on a local SD card with ESXi patches via VUM, so business as usual. Important note: The general symptom of such a Red Screen of Death described here is NOT specific to ESXi or booting from SD cards in general. Whether this is the same issue is unclear though since the original KB article I linked to has not been updated. As per Jason’s comment, with a new ILO4 update HP apparently has fixed an issue related to booting from SD cards.
