SpinnerRow

Yep, just figured that out. Thanks for the enlightenment!

Yea, I was missing that small detail. I got it to boot off of the VMDK and have the USB installed as well. I still can't figure out why it won't boot off of the USB though. I shut down my host, and it booted fine off the USB. It just won't boot off of the USB while under ESXi. Not sure what that is. But at least I have a work around.

I shut down my host, and it booted fine off the USB. I've already created an image from the USB as detailed in my first post. That works fine. I can attached the VMDK that I created to a Win7 VM, edi the /config files, attach it back to my UNRAID VM, reboot and the /config directory (or /boot/config) directory is empty. It didn't take any of the changes I made to it in the VMDK. The other weird part as that I can't get it to boot off of the USB in a VM. I've followed several threads, VM configuration suggestions and so far nothing works. It just says "NO OS". This is a werid one.

If I could get it to boot off of a Sandisk Cruiser Fit USB drive, I would definitely do that! But alas that doesn't seem to work for me. I have thread open in the ESXI forum on that issue but since I can get it to boot off of the virtual disk I thought I would persue that. So far if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all with UNRAID so far. Having been futzing with this for about three whole days now, I'm about ready to throw in the towel and try some other SAN software to see if my luck improves.

I'm running ESXi 5.5 update 1 on a home grown server using an AsRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 running latest BIOS (1.60) and an AMD FX-8320 cpu with 32gb of memory. I cannot get UNRAID to boot up from a USB drive no matter what I do. I have formatted this Sandisk Criuser Fit USB (and six other USBs) six ways from Sunday (FAT, FAT32, exFAT, 4GB USB, 8GB USB, 256mb USB). Dowload the unRAIDServer-5.0.5-i386.zip Format an 8GB Sandisk Cruiser Fit with a volume name of "UNRAID" Extract the contents of zip file to the Sandisk USB drive. Right-Click Make_Bootable.BAT, run as admin to create the ldlinux.sys file on the Sandisk Eject the Sandisk USB drive. Create the VM: Create a new VM as 32bit Ubuntu (also tried 32bit 2.6 Linux and a few others) Add USB controller Add UNRAID Sandisk USB drive. Boot from USB using EFI BIOS (Regular BIOS Doesn't work either even after making USB first in list) Nothing. VMWare says "I120: [msg.Backdoor.OsNotFound] No operating system was found." Just for giggles, I created a VMDK using WinImage with the Sandisk USB as the source and it would boot fine from the virtual hard drive. Where am I going wrong?

No USB key. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get UnRAID to boot off of a USB key (Sandisk Cruiser). I found a thread where a guy had created a VMDK image of the USB using WinImage and it was booting off of a datastore disk now. I would imagine I would have the same issue using a USB key though.

New user of UnRAID 5.0.5 and I've got it installed as an ESXi VM and booting from a VMDK I created with WinImage. If I mount this VMDK under an Win7 machine and make changes to the /config/network.cfg file (or any file in that directory) with Notepad and then reboot the server, the changes are ignored and there is nothing in the /boot/config directory after boot up. What am I doing wrong?