I'm running Vmware ESXI from the internal USB.
No matter how many times I persist the boot order so that the server boots from the internal USB, the server starts up with a blinking line cursor and does nothing.
However if during the preboot I press F12 and then select the internal USB, it successfully boots from it. But it looks like it never remembers it for the next time. I have tried this using soft reboot and hard ones which all ended up in the blinking server mode. I thought this could be a CMOS battery issue. I replaced the battery today and it made absolutely no difference.
Because of this I'm not able to detach the keyboard and memory from the server which is not convenient at all.
How do I get the BIOS to persist the "boot from USB" option?