RedHat 7 attempts to boot from USB
I have a recently ordered Dell Precision T7810 that came pre-loaded with RedHat 7. There were some initial issues that caused the need for a re-installation of RedHat, which was done from a bootable USB. Since then, when the computer is rebooted, it attempts to boot from the USB even though it has been removed. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to prevent this from happening?
I am very new to managing a RedHat system, so if there is something obvious I've neglected, please tell me.
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If needed, perhaps consider using a rescue disk then to a chroot /mnt/sysimage and examine the grub file to see where it points, along with the /ect/fstab file to see where /boot went. Check the boot order in the BIOS - I would suspect that your USB boot is first, but it's worth checking to verify.
When you loaded your system, where did you place your /boot/ partition? Did you use a kickstart, manual build process with a DVD using the installation graphical interface? if you used a manual build process with a Red Hat DVD, did it "see" the hard disk (or SSD drives)? Where did you partition it? If you used a kickstart, does it properly cite your hard disk for the partitions?
(You probably know this), Dell servers have a raid bios that needs to be used to create a "virtual disk", like a mirrored OS disk for instance. It will have to be initialized... but since your system came pre-loaded, that ought to have been done.
If anyone sees something I missed, please chime in.
Good luck Eric
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