HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 won't boot off usb with windows server 2016 iso

[ksoros]

Hello-

I have a new HP Prolian DL308 Gen9 Storage server.  I have a usb with the Windows Server 2016 Standard on it.

When I have the usb inserted into the port, it does see a folder stucture but it won't let me continue on.  When I check the status it reads "generic usb device unrecognized".  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Kevin O -

[rleslie]

Same problem here.  Can boot with USB in Legacy mode, but install doesn't work when going back to UEFI.

[syg_t]

Did you find a resolution to this?

[Kal626]

Hello,

I have very similar issue, I have tried different USB drive and external drive no luck. 

Any thoughts. 

[Jimmy Vance]

The key needs to be setup so it will boot UEFI and not MBR.

You might try using Rufus which is capable of creating a bootable USB which can be used with UEFI. I'd try partition scheme UEFI and choose File System as NTFS  https://rufus.akeo.ie/

[pjmas]

Did you ever figure this out?

[Justin Emlay]

This was driving me nuts!  Usually I have an external DVD drive and if all else fails I just burn the ISO and boot off that but time got the best of it and it's dead now.  I tried many forms of loading a USB drive and all of them failed.  It would see the drive fine but not find anything to boot from.

Rufus v3.13.1730 worked perfect:

GPT with UEFI Target System
DL380 Gen9
Server 2016

Thanks!