Sypower
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Sypower's post in (SOLVED) Trouble getting started - can't boot to Unraid USB was marked as the answerSOLUTION! Well, a workaround at least.
I took the Debian live USB that was created using Rufus' "Add fixes for old BIOSes" option, and just replaced the Debian files with the Unraid files using a plain old Windows file explorer. Honestly I'm a bit surprised that worked because it really felt like I was putting together puzzle pieces that were not designed to fit together.
Here's the recap:
Download a Debian live ISO file: start with debian.org/CD/live, and then choose your preferred download source, architecture, and flavor, then download the corresponding .iso file. (In my case it was "debian-live-11.2.0-amd64-xfce.iso".) Use Rufus to turn the downloaded Debian live .iso into a bootable USB. Make sure to check the box "Add fixes for old BIOSes", which does some magic to make the USB bootable for my old machine. Download the Unraid manual install files: go to unraid.net/download and scroll down to find the .zip file for the version of your liking. Delete all the files on the Debian live USB and replace them with the unzipped contents of Unraid's manual install files. There is no need to run the "make_bootable" script. Remember to rename the USB to "UNRAID".