Dell PowerEdge M620 Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 327
From a USB Flash Drive, support.dell.com, USB Flash Drive, Emulation Type, Hard-Disk Drive Sequence
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From a USB Flash Drive 1 Format the USB flash drive to emulate a hard drive. See the documentation that came with your USB flash drive for instructions. 2 Configure the USB flash drive to be a bootable device. See the documentation that came with your USB flash drive for instructions. Dell also provides a USB memory key boot utility for download at support.dell.com. 3 Install DKMS DOS on the USB flash drive. 4 Create a directory for the system diagnostics on the USB flash drive. 5 Copy the system diagnostics files into the directory. 6 Ensure that you have the USB flash drive connected to the blade. 7 Enter the System Setup program and ensure that the USB Flash Drive Emulation Type option is set to Auto and set the USB flash drive as the first device in the Hard-Disk Drive Sequence option. See "Using the System Setup Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 137 for instructions. NOTE: If you power up or reboot the blade without the USB flash drive connected to the blade, you must reset the options in the System Setup program again. 8 Ensure that you have the USB flash drive connected to the blade. 9 Reboot the blade. If the blade fails to boot, see "Contacting Dell" on page 361. When you start the system diagnostics, a message is displayed stating that the diagnostics are initializing. Next, the Diagnostics menu appears. The menu allows you to run all or specific diagnostics tests or to exit the system diagnostics. NOTE: Before you read the rest of this section, start the system diagnostics so that you can see the utility on your screen. Running System Diagnostics 327