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I just acquired a SuperMicro X7DBR-E 1u server fairly cheap.

 

The machine has from what I can tell:

Dual Xeon X5460

32GB DD2

LSI Raid Card.

 

I am really new to having a local server and setting up things like RAID, ETC.

 

Anyhow, I am wanting to install FreeNas to do some testing on this thing and when going to the bios, I can not select my USB stick. See photos. Also in the F11 boot menu, it is not showing.

 

I know the usb drive is good and will boot on other machines.

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Just an update.

 

Got FreeNas to load from another machine and installed on a flash drive. Then I figured out that you needed to enable the USB HDD in the bios by first disabling another as these bios only allowed 8 total.

 

Machine has been running 24/7 for the past few days and seems to be running fine.

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