Thought I’d do an update to my November 2018 post ‘Creating
Bootable USB Sticks to RTFI* NetApp HCI Nodes’, since I had to create some
new USB Sticks for HCI 1.6P1.
"Power on or Power Reset and during boot up process press F11 for selecting Boot Device.
In the boot device selection menu, highlight the USB option."
Download HCI 1.6P1 from:
solidfire-rtfi-sodium-patch3-11.3.1.5.iso
solidfire-compute-sodium-patch3-11.3.0.14235.iso
Creating the bootable USB sticks is very simple:
1) Use Rufus 3.3 for
the Storage Node image
Default settings in Rufus 3.3 is fine (except I select
cluster size = 8192 bytes, but don’t think it really makes a difference).
Image: Using Rufus 3.3 for Storage Node
Note: On my PC with new USB keys it took 3 minutes.
2) Use Rufus 2.6 for
the Compute Node image
Default settings in Rufus 2.6 is fine.
Important to use the DD image mode (not ISO mode as per
the Storage Node image.)
Image: Using Rufus 2.6 for Compute Node
Note: On my PC with new USB keys it took 20 minutes.
Note: We do the Storage Node images first using rufus
3.3, since it downloads the correct version of ISOLINUX for rufus 2.6 to use
later (rufus 2.6 cannot download the correct version.)
Further Reading
HCI - How to RTFI using a USB key
"Power on or Power Reset and during boot up process press F11 for selecting Boot Device.
In the boot device selection menu, highlight the USB option."
HCI - How to RTFI a HCI Compute Node (via BMC)
Rufus.log
What rufus sees when a newly created compute node (DD
image) key is inserted:
Found USB device
'SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 USB Device' (0781:5591) [GP]
1 device found
No volume
information for drive 0x81
Disk type:
Removable, Sector Size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 3740,
TracksPerCylinder: 255, SectorsPerTrack: 63
Partition type:
MBR, NB Partitions: 1
Disk ID:
0x4CE4C097
Drive has an
unknown Master Boot Record
Partition 1:
Type: Hidden NTFS (0x17)
Size: 16.5 GB (17755537408 bytes)
Start Sector: 0, Boot: Yes, Recognized: Yes
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