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Akmal
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Dec 06, 2018

Unable to boot b2100 blade from USB thumb drive

I am trying to perform a clean install on a B2100 blade on a C2400 Viprion chassis.   I created a bootable USB drive on CentOS linux machine (https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13164). However, ...
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Chris_Grant
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Dec 06, 2018

That should indicate that the blade is powered on, but not yet booted. It is possible that the system doesn't like the thumb drive. I have not seen this, but I have heard of it. Trying a different brand or size of thumb drive may resolve this. I'm sure you've already seen these, but check out:

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13117usbinstall https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13164

 

If none of the above help, and you have confirmed that your terminal settings are correct (likely since you can see AOM), I would open a support case.