Hi All,
I have a ASG120 appliance which I am testing and I wanted to check if it can successfully restore a backup from a USB stick. I made a backup, copied it to a FAT32-formatted USB stick and then I reset the ASG to defaults.
As expected, the device shut itself down. I plugged in the USB stick, restarted it but even after waiting for quite a while, it never become reachable. At first I assumed the restore failed so I tried reaching it with the default IP of 192.168.0.1 but with no luck. Plugging a monitor to the VGA port showed me that the ASG actually tries to *boot* from the USB stick. Which, obviously fails. I plugged in a USB keyboard, rebooted into BIOS and lo-and-behold, first boot device is indeed USB. Setting it to HDD-first made everything right, the ASG booted and restored the config from the USB stick.
Now my question is: is this default behavior for the ASGs, that the USB is setup as first boot device ? This is kinda bad news if true. I have remote ASGs where there is no monitor/keyboard. I want to simply be able to tell someone onsite to just plug in a USB stick with a config on it and boot it, without having to worry it won't come up.
This is a test ASG which we got from Astaro, it's not a new box and has obviously being used before. I am hoping someone played with the BIOS settings.
Anyone has any experience about this ?
Thanks,
Stefan
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