Just bought a Dell PowerEdge R720 and want to use unRAID with it. I've previously used ESXi, but I like the features unRAID has to offer. I plan to use the trial version to test things out so I used the USB media creator. This server refuses to boot into the unRAID OS. I've tried the same flashdrive on a different computer and it boots up fine.
Thing's I've tried:
Updating BIOS
Setting boot mode to BIOS
Setting boot mode to UEFI
Applying default settings
Changing default boot devices
Making sure my flashdrive is FAT32
Removing all but one stick of memory
Removing all expansion cards
Using different USB ports
Using a Windows 10 install disk to verify if it's even able to boot to an OS, which it did.
If I boot using BIOS (Legacy) mode, I can get to the unRAID boot menu. Booting into "unRAID OS" and I get a black screen and nothing else. The fans spin down and the activity light on the flash drive stops blinking.
If I boot using UEFI mode, I can also get to the unRAID boot menu. Upon booting I get "Failed to allocate memory for kernel command line, bailing out. Booting kernel failed: Bad file number". Any other boot option yields the same error.
I've used both the USB creator and the manual install method multiple times and I still can't boot. I have also tried using another flashdrive.
Booting from UEFI mode: