Background:
I am quite capable with computers, but new to Linux. I have a decent storage collection ~25TB which is fully backed up. I am looking to consolidate my storage into an unraid array with 2 parity drives. I have watched most of Spaceinvader's videos and feel I have a good grasp of what is can do and feel I am almost ready to take the plunge.
What I want:
I want unraid to run an array of all my dives, and 4 cache drive SSDs to run dockers, VMs and backup of those (maybe not all cache drives, backups can be unassigned drives?) I will also be running a full time Windows 10 VM with primary GPU passthrough (GTX 770). I have already downloaded and modified the bios for the GPU. I will also be running a Plex docker and an openVPN docker.
Issues so far:
First I wanted to try unraid on my HTPC with 2 SSDs to mess around with. I created a bootable USB drive with the unraid tool. Modified the computer bios to boot from the USB, still booted to Windows. Removed all drives except the USB from boot devices, still booted to Windows somehow. Recreated the USB manually, ran the make_bootable.bat as administrator and retried. Same issues. I changed boot options to legacy and tried again to boot from USB. Still didn't work. I removed the Windows SSD, only boots to bios, will not even attempt to boot or go to dos. Works fine to boot from USB if it is a Windows bootable install...totally stumped here. Only thing I can speculate is that it is the P.O.S. Biostar motherboard.
Second issue after I gave up with that is went to my server to test it. Did one time boot override and boots to unraid, chose non-gui to connect with my other computer, everything booted except I cannot get a valid IP. Started with something like 169... and was not showing up on my router as a device. I was unable to find a decent amount of discussion with this and not sure what could be the issue, with either of these problems. This was late last night and have been unable to test anything else as people are using Plex all day so far. Was hoping to get some advise before I have the chance to test again.
I really want this to work as I need unraid at this point, but want to test it at least a bit before dropping $130 on the software (18 drives to start with).