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Bjarne_10209
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Oct 15, 2012

Bigip 6900 usb boot problem

  Hi,   I had to change both HDD's on a 6900. I was then going to image the disks with TMOS 10.1.0.   Beforehand I tested the reimage of a Bigip 3900 with the same USB CD-rom drive I ...
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Oct 17, 2012
I did try both USB ports. I have yet to try a USB stick, but by experience it’s easier to get a device to boot on dvd/cd then a USB stick.

 

I also tried to set the boot order for dvd/cd on different places, with HDD always on last.

 

The thing I noticed was the POST took a long time when I had the new HDD's installed, so I was wondering if there was something I had to do after replacing both HDD's, like clear CMOS, RAID config etc.