Boot Devices Latest Topicshttps://forums.unraid.net/forum/118-boot-devices/Boot Devices Latest TopicsenUnraid doesn't boot anymore from USB stickhttps://forums.unraid.net/topic/199690-unraid-doesnt-boot-anymore-from-usb-stick/Today, I came back from work and my Mac Mini (intel) with Unraid was offline. Maybe because of a power outtake.

Now, it will not boot unraid anymore. Normally after a reboot, i press "Alt" to see the boot menu and to select "EFI boot". This selection appears, but after selecting it and hitting "Return", nothing happens for 5 seconds. After that, the Mac is booting from the internal hard drive (with macOS, not Unraid).

What can I do, Unraid is absolutly neccessary for my network. Please give me a hint!

Best regards

David

]]>199690Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:31:25 +0000Onboarding Wizard Hangs At Configuring Boot Poolhttps://forums.unraid.net/topic/199549-onboarding-wizard-hangs-at-configuring-boot-pool/It was very difficult to get my first SSD to Internal Boot. Then the SSD failed and I had to work this magic on a second SSD. I've tried everything me and AI could come up with. I'm configuring boot and data pool. Wizard always hangs when configuring boot pool.

]]>199549Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:57:19 +0000Cache pool for 7.3 boot drive?https://forums.unraid.net/topic/199113-cache-pool-for-73-boot-drive/Can the nvme raid 1 cache pool be configured to use for the Unraid boot drive?

]]>199113Fri, 29 May 2026 01:34:56 +00007.3.0 Replaced boot disk on mirrored boot poolhttps://forums.unraid.net/topic/198756-730-replaced-boot-disk-on-mirrored-boot-pool/How can remove the removed disk? added some pictures and diagnostics
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]]>198756Wed, 13 May 2026 08:57:59 +0000Changing to internal boot drive - suggestions?https://forums.unraid.net/topic/199525-changing-to-internal-boot-drive-suggestions/Hi folks, I was going to change over to an internal boot and change my licensing to tpm instead of the flash drive I currently have running. I haven't seen anything regarding minimum requirements for the drives. I have 6 open mb sata ports so I was going to buy two cheapo ssd drives, as my m2 slots are already being used for my cache drive. I'd mirror these two new drives. Are there any requirements or suggestions for drives? I was gonna grab a few of these type of things off of amazon - https://www.amazon.ca/Patriot-Burst-Elite-120GB-Solid/dp/B08LKMQ9T4 ... size and speed don't matter right? What file system would make sense for the mirrored boot drive in this case? Thanks.

]]>199525Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:54:08 +0000[7.3.0] fTPM, licensing and changing a CPUhttps://forums.unraid.net/topic/198934-730-ftpm-licensing-and-changing-a-cpu/I have moved my license to my server's fTPM during the BETA and I never looked back... Until now, because I suspect I have a bad CPU and I need to replace it, which means the fTPM will be inaccessible/have to be reset.

I bought a discrete TPM module in anticipation to the fact I'll very likely have to move the license to it.

So, what do I do?

]]>198934Tue, 19 May 2026 15:51:26 +0000Internal boot issues (sort of) and AMD fTPM Switchhttps://forums.unraid.net/topic/198872-internal-boot-issues-sort-of-and-amd-ftpm-switch/I just upgraded to Unraid 7.3.0 and setup Internal boot. I set it up as two mirrored volumes with boot + data partitions.

Ran into a bunch of problems with failure errors on setting up the internal boot using the onboarding wizard.

Did this several times with various degrees of failure but one with a message that errors occurred but probably OK, recommend reboot.

Did that and it booted up via flash. I had previously set the boot to the internal boot volume in my bios, but it booted up on the flash drive.

Shud down the server and gave up on internal boot and set the bios back to the USB Flash drive instead of the internal boot drive.

Rebooted and I was shocked to see the server booting up on the internal hard drives (2 in the pool).

Surprised to say the least. Below is what the system shows now. Note that after booting up on internal, brought the array back online and formatted the data volumes as seen below.

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Server came up and Internal boot was in fact working as shown above. But I don't trust it. Don't see anything under the Boot Pool: See following:

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As can be seen above the Pool shows 'flash' and HEALTH as "ONLINE" and datasets as 'boot'.

So what am I booted up on???

What should I do here? Am I reading this wrong?

The Unraid flash device is showing under unassigned devices as shown below:

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So don't know what to do now. Keep the config as is or revert to the Unraid flash drive.

Thoughts?

BTW, my motherboard is an ASRock X399 Gaming running a 16 Core Threadripper.

It has "AMD fTPM Switch" with comment "Use this to enable or disable AMD CPU fTPM."

Enabled this in bios and went to Tools/Registration but no option for "Move License to TPM", just "Manage Licence".

Was not going to do this at this time but wanted to see if it was compatible.

Does anyone know if Unraid 7.3.0 is compatible with AMD fTPM? Looks like it is not as I think this is attached to the CPU and not the motherboard?

Any comments or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Sparkie

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