Booting from an External Device
Booting from an external device means that your Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller connects to a server to retrieve the boot image at boot time. Rather than using an image stored on your system’s flash memory, it downloads the image from the external device each time it reboots.
When you are testing a new image before putting it on your Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller, you might want to boot from an external device. Ordinarily, you would not want to boot an image on your Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller this way.
To boot an image from an external device: