MikeManiac

I was able to boot into SanDisk drive (that I prepared using manual install), after I took out both SATA SSDs. I also changed bios boot order to (USB, CD, HDD) but I do not think that matters. SanDisk drive does show GUID within Unraid UI

I was able to boot it once, and exactly once - after unplugging the battery from the motherboard for 30s and plugging it back. I booted with the original USB stick (fresh unraid 99 flash via rufus). Any subsequent attempts to boot do not get anywhere. So I strongly suspect a bios issue, or some hardware damage that got both the USB stick and bios itself.

Cleared BIOS by unplugging CMOS. it actually booted (while I had original malfunctioning USB stick in).

did manual install (partitioned 4gb partition and formatted as fat32, left the rest of 128gb unpartioned on my SanDisk). does not boot. plugging in Samsung AND Sandisk (so now I have 2 bootable drives, Samsung is the one that booted once before) - does not work. disconnected KVM and plugged directly into monitor and keyboard (via front USB-C port) - can't get into bios. I even tried to boot into virtual CD (via KVM) but that does nothing. Looks like the bios on this thing is dead and there is no amount of tweaking that can save it :(

I have had USB drive fail on me same way. I was able to use Unraid USB creator to boot into fresh install and copy all the data, and then it stopped booting altogether. SanDisk drive does not work with unraid usb creator. Samsung drive does - but does not fit into the designated slot. I have KVM attached to it and it just is stuck on splash screen. No amount of "Del" button smashing gets it to show bios even (I was able to get into bios once before)

As far as I understand - the devices has WiFi/Bluetooth combo card that is NOT seed in unraid. my attempts to pass this to HomeAssistant failed miserably no matter if I use VM (HA_in_a_box) or Docker (and passing dbus and other stuff). lack of package manager and systemctl does not help - at best I see the device as usb and can pass the usb but that's it. It took me exactly 5 minutes to get working HA on OMV7 running on PI5 in a docker container.