On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:56:41AM +0300, dbsubscr...@mail.ru wrote: > I use the server on S5000PAL. For remote reinstallation of system to me > it is necessary to choose in BIOS for USB disks the Force FDD mode. It > will allow to consider USB the separate device and allows to choose him > at single loadings on this version of BIOS. > > I use a loading image > stretch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz. > > The image is copied on usb a disk through dd. The section 1Gb turns > out. > > When loading with USB the message of "Boot error" is given at once > > I have tried to zapusat releases of boot.img.gz for the previous dates > and only the release from 20160106 was loaded without problems. > > The image of hd-media of the jessie distribution kit is loaded without > problems.
In floppy mode? > BIOS servers it is updated to the latest version. > > Use of USB on this server works in the HDD mode, but demands > indications of an order of loading in the list of HDD devices. And to > use USB for single loading it is impossible. The hdmedia has a partition table and expects to be booted as a harddisk. Making it a floppy can't possibly be expected to work since floppy booting is totally different than hard disk booting. That is not a way to solve boot problems. -- Len Sorensen