After upgrading the T30 it would no longer boot. As it runs headless I had to take it down and attach a monitor and keyboard to see what was going on. I received a couple of error messages related to USB2-port1. I have no idea what that is but as the OS runs from a USB drive... I restored a backup CentOS 7.4 image from May onto a new flash drive. The server boots fine which makes me think the hardware is OK. I then upgraded this OS installation to 7.6. It will not boot. Here is what I see
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USB2 - Port1: Cannot enable - Maybe the USB Cable is bad?
USB2 - Port1: cannot disable (err = -23)
[then a few routine boot message lines]
dracut-initque timeout
dracut-initque timeout
For my next trick I downloaded the 7.6 minimal install image, booted the T30 from the image and attempted to install to another USB flash drive. The flash drive is NOT recognized as an install target. This makes me think that something is amiss in 7.6 rather than my hardware. I am currently installing Ubuntu 18.04 to the same flash drive on the machine and it seems to be going fine. That again seems to eliminate the possibility of a hardware defect.
Any suggestions?
My next steps, after backing up the boot drives for my other two servers, will be to attempt to install CentOS 7.6 on them and see if a USB target is recognized. I will update my post when I have that information.
TIA,
Ken