hp microserver gen8 boot from internal usb

Ive got a HP ProLiant M元10e Gen8 v2 which refuses to enter boot menu or setup. At any rate, am hoping some of you could provide some answers and insight. Browse other questions tagged hp-proliant grub usb-boot or ask your own question. To debug Ive tried booting into safe mode and unplugging all USB devices. Never did go through the route of trying to find a permanent fix in fstab for this. What I had noticed happened in the past on Ubuntu 16.04 is that when an update was installed via sudo apt-get update that may have had a kernel update in it, it woould act this way, but then after removing the other drives and resetting the logical boot drive again would resolve things back to normal. I cannot figure what else to do now that this has happened. Now, with all other drives removed except SSD as well as having the SSD set as the logical drive and boot in BIOS, it always just keeps going after attempting to boot from 'C:/' and just starts to loop on booting from NIC.

The mobo has a connection for an ODD and since I wanted to setup the drive bays for raid and boot from an SSD, I have been successfully using the ODD as the boot drive and running my OS from it until I tried this upgrade to 18.04. There is an internal USB A v2.0 port on the motherboard and a low-profile PCIe slot. I want to use the drive bays for my existing data drives, not the OS. It has for slots for 3.5' drives and no additional SATA ports. I know its going to sound crazy but try to boot your gen8 and wait a few seconds before inserting your usb (lets say 8 seconds). So I have a HP ProLiant Gen8 micro server with 4 disks bays. Im replacing my old HP Microserver Gen 7 N36L with a Gen10+ with a Xeon processor and 32GB of RAM.

Hp microserver gen8 boot from internal usb