NielsDettenbach wrote:+1 here on a ProLiant DL580 Gen8 with latest available firmwares / ilo (beside this is disable the the embedded serial prt - only use the virtual serial port).
Tried Virtual USB Images and CD/DVD by Browser and Remote URL over a Apache on the same LAN - with different Linux distribution medias / install media (ans different boot loaders like grub2, isolinux, syslinux). For me that seems a bug within the BIOS / iLO firmware from HP, especially while boot loaders. If using the "One Time BIOS Boot Menu" it goes a bit further crazy - it just seem to "hang within" that boot menu.
This taked me several hours to fiddle that out - while each pre-boot / hardware check (seems the "shortest" version) takes >5min on that machine. Just wondering, why this is still an issue - Linux is not an "exotics" on such machines...ß)
So you've added to a thread that started 7 years ago. There is a lot of difference between G5 / Gen8 and iLO2 / iLO4. This issue was resolved as they had another USB key in the system it was trying to boot from.
You should start a seperate thread with your questions. and provide more detail or screenshots on what errros you are getting or what is not working as expected.
Booting Linux installation media using iLO Virtual Media is done daily in my lab