AK2K19

Well, it recognizes usb 2.o devices. Nonluck booting unraid yet. Maybe will run the makeboot on the stick and then try again.

I concur.. messed me up royally. I had to remove the battery to reset the BIOS as my keyboard or mouse were not detected. I did not have a PS/2 keyboard and my current keyboard with a PS/2 adapter did not work either.

yes it is a 32 GB stick. My last resort probably is to use an old 8GB Sandisk stick that has been reliable for a few years now and I believe is USB 1.1/2.0 compatible. I do not have USB 3.0 on this board (it predates USB 3.0). Other question is I made the stick on a laptop that has a 32bit Windows OS. I believe the media creator doesn't care about the platform when creating the USB Media. would that be a correct assumption?

Well, the media creator worked fine and applied the correct label. You are right, I used a stick instead of a reader. That hasn't helped either. I was just thinking aloud that since UnRaid wants the GUID of a USB Stick, I might use the option of "boot from CDROM" by copying the stick contents to a CD and still have a stick in the USB slot, so UnRaid can read that and use the GUID. not sure if there is any config changes in the boot process that needs to be done.

well, this MOBO does not have eufi I think, so I chose legacy anyway. all MOBOs typically support legacy. Is there a way to just have the USB Stick for its GUID while boot from a CD Rom? Since UnRaid resides entirely in the memory from what I have read so far, doing so might meet the needs to bypass the limitation my configuration presents.

Yeah, i did legacy mode. Not sure if the MB supports or even knows uefi. Maybe i have to switch to a stick instead of a card reader?

I have a Gigabyte GA-965-GM-S2 Motherboard with a Core2 Duo E6320 processor. It has an option to boot from USB-HDD, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, Hard Disk, CDD in the BIOS. I had tried installing FreeNAS and was able to boot using the USB Stick (32GB Kingston). However, in case of UnRaid, it just freezes at OS boot point that I know is after which typically the OS screen pops up. I tried the disk creator option as well as the manual option. In the trouble shooting, I did disable USB 2.0 as well as have set SATA AHCI enabled. There are no other drives connected to the PC except a 250 GB Sata that I plugged in just in case it was looking for a drive. However, none of the options seem to work. Any help in this regard is appreciated. Here's the link to the motherboard: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-965GM-S2-rev-10