After successful BMR of a Dell Poweredge Server the message "You have ordered a Dell System with no OS installed." is seen upon boot.
Problem
After successful Windows BMR of a Dell PowerEdge Server the message "You have ordered a Dell System with no OS installed." is seen upon boot.
Error Message
Upon boot after successful BMR the following message is shown:
You have ordered a Dell System with no OS installed. If you have ordered direct attached 3TB or larger drives, please be aware that not all OS's have support of these larger drives.
Cause
On the EFI system partition resides a Dell folder that needs to be removed/renamed in order to boot successfully.
Solution
1. Boot the Windows Setup ISO (can be 2012r2, 2016, 2019, etc.) , leave the defaults and click Next
2. On the bottom left click “Repair your computer”
3. Choose Troubleshoot
4. Choose Command Prompt
5. Run
diskpart
6. Type
list vol
7. Locate the number of the small FAT32 EFI-partition, i.e. volume 3
Type
sel vol 3
Type
assign letter y
Type
list vol
Type
exit
cd /d y:\efi\
ren dell 1dell
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
8. Restart the system and it should boot into Windows.
Note: This error may also be seen when performing VMware conversions with the VMware converter:
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