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Brad76's avatar
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 t...
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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