Hi All,

I'm told the UnRaid OS default boot mode can be changed by going to: Main->Boot Device->Click on Flash->then SYSLINUX Configuration. Shown in the screen capture below is the SYSLINUX Configuration GUI.  What specific change to the parameters shown below do I have to make so I can change my UnRaid OS default boot mode to a boot mode that changes it to a standalone PC?

 

I need to have the ability to operate my UnRaid server as a standalone PC with its own keyboard, mouse and monitor display for the following reason. I got a lot of movies ripped to DVD disks and my goal is to migrate each disk to my Cache Disk using the 4 separate optical drives I have installed on my UnRaid PC.  This approach will help me finish this task faster compared to using the single optical drive installed on my Window10 client PC and doing it remotely.

 

Any help to the specific changes I need to make to the parameters shown in the screen capture below to change the boot mode will be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, slipstream said:

 

Any help to the specific changes I need to make to the parameters shown in the screen capture below to change the boot mode will be greatly appreciated

From what you are describing, you just want to select Unraid OS GUI Mode as the default by clicking that radio button.  This will start unRAID with a GUI on the monitor attached to the server and you can run MakeMKV docker container (or whatever app you are using on unRAID) to rip disks directly to the server from the server.

 

Actually, it is not necessary to run a GUI directly on the server to do this.  I have the MakeMKV docker installed on unRAID with an optical drive in my server and I can run the GUI from any PC and still rip discs directly on the server with the server optical drive.  How MakeMKV works with multiple optical disks directly on the server, I am not sure, but I have two in my Windows PC and I have ripped discs from them simultaneously to the server by running multiple instance of MakeMKV on the PC.

 

You might have to install 4 instances of MakeMKV each with a different Web port for the GUI or a different IP address for the container.  You would also need to assign a different sgX and srX number which corresponds to the optical drive to be used by that container ( e.g. --device /dev/sg5 --device /dev/sr0)

Edited February 28, 20215 yr by Hoopster

you dont need the GUI mode for that.

you boot,just ssh to unraid and copy the dvds using midnight commander -- mc from the dvd drives or grab iso images using dd command to the disk drive you want. you can use screen command or connect multiple ssh sessions to copy more at once

 

Thank you to all for your help.  I am new to UnRaid OS, so it looks like I have to do some experimentation relating to setting up srX and sgX numbers for MakeMKV and also figure out what SSH is about because I'm not clear yet how all of this fits within my task to populate my MOVIE share drive with pre-ripped DVDs. 

 

In short, I have several hundred movies already burned onto DVD disks that were backed up long ago using an app called AnyDVD.  So I don't understand why MakeMKV is necessary since AnyDVD already created unlocked DVD backups.

 

To summarize, the task as I see it is to manually load 4 pre-ripped DVD movie disks to 4 separate optical drive trays installed within my UnRaid PC. Then manually close all four trays followed by copying the data from each DVD disk to my 1TB Cache Disk.  Then in the evening when I'm asleep I believe the UnRaid OS can be programmed to automatically move the DVD data from my 1TB Cache Disk over to my MOVIE Share drive although I have not yet figured out how exactly this is done.   Lastly, to avoid the need to have my Windows10 client PC powered up needlessly, my thinking is by having my UnRaid PC boot up as a standalone PC with its own monitor, keyboard and mouse I could perform this DVD migration task with only a single PC being powered up.

 

However, what I was asking was how I could change it so the "GUI Mode" becomes the new default so I could skip the BLUE Boot selection window shown below.  But as Hoopster helped me see there is an "UnRaid OS GUI Mode" Radio button which I totally did not see. I think this radio button will make my UnRaid PC automatically boot into GUI mode without the need to manually make the "GUI MODE" selection shown in the BLUE screen below.  

 

Lastly, if a better way exists to perform this task of populating my MOVIE share drive with pre-ripped  DVDS please share.  This is my first UnRaid Server I have setup and working on populating my Share Drives.  If there is a smarter and easier way to perform this task without spending several months on it please share.  Thank you for your time.

 

Edited March 1, 20215 yr by slipstream

8 minutes ago, slipstream said:

So I don't understand why MakeMKV is necessary since AnyDVD already created unlocked DVD backups

If you have already ripped the discs to files, you don't need MakeMKV as that is what it does.  However, when you said you wanted to use the optical drives in your server, I thought that meant you still needed to rip some content.  If you are talking about just reading files from the optical discs and copying them to unRAID in their current format, then you can forget about MakeMKV.

 

15 minutes ago, slipstream said:

Then in the evening when I'm asleep I believe the UnRaid OS can be programmed to automatically move the DVD data from my 1TB Cache Disk over to my MOVIE Share drive although I have not yet figured out how exactly this is done.

Use of the cache drive is configured per share.  If you want a share to cache initial writes to the array so that they happen faster, set the share (Movies or whatever you want to call it) to Use Cache - Yes.  This will write them to the cache drive/pool first (usually an SSD for speed) and then youy can schedule the Mover to run at say, 2 am, to move the files to the parity protected array with the slower parity write speed.

 

15 minutes ago, slipstream said:

I think this radio button will make my UnRaid PC automatically boot into GUI mode without the need to manually make the "GUI MODE" selection shown in the BLUE screen below.

Yes, that is what it does.

Hoopster,

Thanks for the help. I look forward to finishing this huge data migration task which is going to take a very long time to complete.

4 hours ago, slipstream said:

the task as I see it is to manually load 4 pre-ripped DVD movie disks to 4 separate optical drive trays installed within my UnRaid PC. Then manually close all four trays followed by copying the data from each DVD disk to my 1TB Cache Disk.  Then in the evening when I'm asleep I believe the UnRaid OS can be programmed to automatically move the DVD data from my 1TB Cache Disk

You setup 4 drive to parallel rip DVD, but operation like perform just once ( or twice ) per day.

The time need for write a DVD disk at 24x ( read also same ) just 4 min ( 2:15 + 1:44 ), so I don't think operate in such way was a good idea, Manual insert 4 DVD  ->  schedule baremetel auto rip -> schedule unraid auto copy to array .... repeat repeat

 

 

An effective way was setup Unraid and Windows VM with pass through DVD drive ( and keyboard + mouse + display if you don't want a separate PC to remote control ) , then spend several hours to rip as much as DVD to array.

I always use Imgburn, it have auto eject after ripping, auto rip once disk detect and some other feature could help simplify ripping job.

 

I agree above method need involve more man power, but it effective a lot.