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If your hardware does not support legacy BIOS and you are trying to boot Swarm using USB sticks, then you will have to perform the following steps in order to create a bootable USB stick that is UEFI compatible.

Plug the USB flash device into the Windows computer.
Note of the drive letter assigned to the USB device. (the example uses X:)
Open a command prompt as an administrator:
a. Windows Start Menu Search: "cmd"
b. Ctrl-Shift-Enter to open as an administrator, agreeing to the
security prompt.
Format the USB key by typing the following at the command prompt:
format X: /FS:FAT'. This may take awhile to complete.
Ensure the USB device has been marked as bootable.
a. Windows Start Menu Search: "Disk Management"
b. Find the USB Device in the list and ensure its status is listed as 'Active'
c. If it is not, right click on the status portion of the row and select 'Mark Partition as Active'.
Download this to your computer https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-6.03.zip
On your USB stick create the following folder and its subfolder /EFI/BOOT
From syslinux-6.03.zip copy the following 2 files to the USB stick under /EFI/BOOT/
1. efi64/efi/syslinux.efi
2. efi64/com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.e64
On the USB stick under /EFI/BOOT rename syslinux.efi to BOOTx64.efi
From the Swarm storage bundle copy the following files to the USB stick under /EFI/BOOT/: castor.rle, fsimage, kernel, manifest.cfg, syslinux.cfg, syslinux.txt
From that same bundle copy the caringo folder to the root of the USB stick
Edit the node.cfg file and add a license file in the /caringo directory as appropriate.
The folder structure of your USB stick should look like this:

Code Block

Volume serial number is 88EB-161B
X:.
├───EFI
│   └───BOOT
│       │   BOOTx64.efi
│       │   castor.rle
│       │   fsimage
│       │   kernel
│       │   ldlinux.e64
│       │   manifest.cfg
│       │   syslinux.cfg
│       │   syslinux.txt
│
└───caringo
    │   node.cfg
    │   node.cfg.sample
    │   license.txt
    │
    └───console
            caringo-swarm-console.png
            ClusterRestart.htm
            ClusterShutdown.htm
            console-minus-icon.png
            console-plus-icon.png
            console.css
            console_caringo.css
            console_print.css
            console_print_caringo.css
            console_print_preview.css
            erroricon.jpg
            folder-close.gif
            folder-open.gif
            hint.css
            icon_back.gif
            icon_i.gif
            icon_led_off_lg.png
            icon_led_on_lg.png
            icon_minus.gif
            icon_plus.gif
            icon_restart.gif
            icon_restart_lg.gif
            icon_shutdown.gif
            icon_shutdown_lg.gif
            icon_transparent.gif
            icon_warning_lg.gif
            infoicon.jpg
            injection_graph_func.js
            logo.jpg
            logo_adminconsole.gif
            logo_caringo.gif
            logo_castor.png
            logo_castoradminconsole.gif
            logo_company.gif
            logo_replicationconsole.gif
            minus.gif
            plus.gif
            reportstyle.css
            robots.txt
            script.js
            style.css
            style2.css
            syncerroricon.png
            title_cluster.gif
            toggle.js
            unlicensed.png
            unregistered.png
            warnicon.jpg

"Eject" or "Safely Remove" the USB flash device. The eject option can be found by right-clicking the drive device icon within Windows Explorer. You must not just pull the device out; you must cleanly unmount it in order to ensure that all data is written to it.
Plug the USB flash device into a Swarm node.

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