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Brad76
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Dec 05, 2019

Bigip Rebuild

I have a redundant system that has failed due to a major power outage we had. Support recommends a clean install by following

the below article. Pretty straight forward. Boot to USB drive with the image you want installed and the machine will discover iso and walk you through.

My issue I'm having is getting the system to recognize the USB drive K13164 article give some instructions but it's failing on the first command to mount -o loop ...just doesn't recognize the command at all. BTW this USB creation is done on the working BigIP.

 

Tried several other ways to create the USB and nothing seems to be working here.

 

Anyone else out there come across this issue?

 

K13117: Performing a clean installation of BIG-IP 11.x - 14.x or Enterprise Manager 3.x

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13117

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13164

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  • Enes_Afsin_Al's avatar
    Enes_Afsin_Al
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    Dec 06, 2019

    Hi Brad76,

    Clean Installation:

    1. Use fat32 usb

    2. Copy .iso image to usb

    3. Mount usb to device

    4. Reboot

    5. Enter bios and boot from usb

    6. Wipe disk

    diskinit --style volumes

    7. Verify system as 'W95 FAT32' - not required

    fdisk -l /dev/sdb

    8. Create "usb" folder in "mnt" and mount

    mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

    9. Start installation via "image2disk" command

    image2disk --format=volumes --nosaveconfig --nosavelicense /mnt/usb/BIGIP-14.1.2.2-0.0.4.iso

    10. Eject usb after installation

    11. Reboot

    • Brad76's avatar
      Brad76
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      Dec 06, 2019
      Thanks for the reply. I get all those steps but my device isn't picking up the image on the USB. The bigip device has a corrupted filesystem right now (reason we are rebuilding) and is in a constant reboot. I created the FAT32 USB with the iso saved to the USB drive. My device does see the USB drive on a reboot but it doesn't boot into MOS and kick off the install script like the article states. This is where I'm stuck. I've tried different ways to create the USB drive and different USB drives. Without the USB in the device will boot into the section where I select TMOS Maintenance mode but that hasn't helped me get anywhere. Brad