Mustard

SOLVED. As Commander Taggart of the NSEA Protector would say "Never give up, never surrender!". (Quote from, Galaxy Quest movie) Well I kept going with trying to install Unraid. Finally I had a win. I read quite a few posts over the weekend and went back with trying to load it manually. While doing this without luck initially, I read that just formatting the drive my not be good enough and should be done properly using command line "diskpart" as a quick format may not remove all. I did a clean and format and tried again and it worked. Woo Hoo. I know most of you know how to do this but here's a link below from Seagate to make it easy for someone to follow who isn't to familiar with this process. I hope this helps. https://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/kb/how-to-diskpart-eraseclean-a-drive-through-the-command-prompt-005929en/ Cheers. Mustard

G'day Unraid Mob, I'm Mustard. First off, A big thanks for all the help that this community has given me so far with al the Tips, Tricks and Tutes that I have tried, and secondly let me start off by saying Linux / Unraid is not my first language but I do speak Windows fairly well. My learning curve in Unraid is more akin to a vertical line, in as much, because I'm a bloke who normally will not easily ask for help but now is asking for said help, as I think that with beating my head against a brick wall for so long trying to get this to work I have broken my brain. LOL. OK Here is what I have in order of Hardware. Mo-Bo Gigabyte Z270-HD3 with FD9 Bios, Intel i7 - 6700k CPU, RAM, 32 gig total in (2x16) 2133mhz . Overkill I know! Also have a Samsung M.2 drive for cache and 4 HDD's for storage and for feeding electrons to the whole works I have a Cooler Master V650 Power. supply. Here is what I have tried so far to get it to load over a 2 week period. Used Different USB Brands such as Sandisk , Samsung, and No Names in both USB 2/3 Types. as per Space invader one You tube video. Thanks by the way Great Videos. Currently using Samsung Bar 32g flavour. Tried using internal USB 2 header and External USB 2/3 Used the Unraid flash Creator in all versions From 6.11.5 down to 6.9.2 also tried doing a manual install following instructions from this site I have set the BIOS settings as per this sites recommendations with the USB Drive being first boot, setting storage controller to support AHCI and SATA connections, so no raid. also trying the setting for Forced-FDD and disabling USB 2/3 and USB 2 keyboard and disable fast boot. Also ran a MEM Test which passed. I'm sure that I tried a few other things in other combos that my now bad sector riddled brain has forgotten. LOL. But the closest I get to loading Unraid is this a Blue Screen (Ominous to a windows person) with the heading Lime Technology Inc with 5 options 1 - Unraid OS 2 - Unraid OS GUI Mode 3 - Unraid OS Safe Mode (no plugins, no GUI) 4 - Unraid OS Safe Mode (no plugins) 5 - Memtest 86+ This comes with a 5...4...3...2...1... Perpetual Loop. If I Press Tab on option 1. Unraid OS, I get > /bz image initrd = /bzroot From What I have gleaned off this site it is some type of boot code ?? Well this ends my tale of woe, I thank you in advance for any help that may come my way but please I ask, as I said earlier I am not versed in the fine arts of Linux / Unraid command line so please explain any of suggestions as you would a moron/ Windows hacker, for alas I am one. Cheers.