Hi. I am new to unRAID. I am trying it out to see if I like it, but I cannot get it to bootup. My computer just hangs up and does nothing after all the checks. I know my motherboard allows bootup via usb. I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3. I have been able to bootup another OS named Naslite via a flash drive in the past.I am using a 1 GB Lexar Firefly flash drive. I have formatted it with the HP tool, copied the unRAID 4.2.1 files to it, and added the syslinix file to it as well. I think that I might have an IRQ conflict. When my PC displays the assigned IRQ's I see that the onboard USB ports and the onboard SATA ports are sharing the same IRQ. Could this be my problem?  Is there a way to resolve the conflict? Could I add a new USB controller card in one of the open PCI slots to resolve the conflict. There are no options in the BIOS to change any of the IRQs.

I just setup unRaid last night on a lexar 1gb firefly. I had the same problem. I tried this and it worked after.

 

Use the HP flash formatter tool and check create a DOS startup disk

 

I used the HPUSBFW_BOOTFILES (not sure if i can post links, but they should be easy to find with google) for the dos system files.

 

Click Start

 

Then I just followed the regular unRaid flash setup instructions starting from step 1 and everything worked like a charm after.

 

Give it a try hopefully it helps.

 

 

Hi. I am new to unRAID. I am trying it out to see if I like it, but I cannot get it to bootup. My computer just hangs up and does nothing after all the checks. I know my motherboard allows bootup via usb. I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3. I have been able to bootup another OS named Naslite via a flash drive in the past.I am using a 1 GB Lexar Firefly flash drive. I have formatted it with the HP tool, copied the unRAID 4.2.1 files to it, and added the syslinix file to it as well. I think that I might have an IRQ conflict. When my PC displays the assigned IRQ's I see that the onboard USB ports and the onboard SATA ports are sharing the same IRQ. Could this be my problem?  Is there a way to resolve the conflict? Could I add a new USB controller card in one of the open PCI slots to resolve the conflict. There are no options in the BIOS to change any of the IRQs.

 

Haven't heard about IRQ issues before ... did you name the USB properly?

 

 

Bill

  I have it working now. I downloaded a different version of the HP Formatting Tool and reformatted my flash drive as FAT. Once I added back the unRAID and syslinux files to the drive it worked perfectly. Now I need to move some data around so I have a few hard drives to reformat with unRAID.

  I have it working now. I downloaded a different version of the HP Formatting Tool and reformatted my flash drive as FAT. Once I added back the unRAID and syslinux files to the drive it worked perfectly. Now I need to move some data around so I have a few hard drives to reformat with unRAID.

 

Where did you download your "different" version of the HP Formatting tool?  Does it have a version number?

It might just help the next person trying to format their flash drive.

 

Joe L.

I don't remember where I downloaded the files. The one that worked for me had a filename of SP27213.exe and the version that I had problems with was named SP27608.exe