[SOLVED] Black screen on boot

[MarkMcG93]

Hello,

 

I am trying to boot unraid on the following hardware

 

ASUS ROG Hero VIII

Ryzen 9 5950X

Nvidia RTX3090 FE

 

I have made the usb stick manually as the unraid creator wouldn’t detect my usb stick.

 

I can see the stick in the bios but when I try to boot to it I get a black screen and the Q cod Ad.

 

I am feeling a bit stuck as I’m not sure where to begin troubleshooting.

 

all the post lights have gone off and I have run windows on this machine with no issues so the hardware is not faulty.

 

could anyone offer some advice? 

[JorgeB]

If you're booting UEFI you need to rename EFI- to EFI on the flash drive.

[MarkMcG93]

4 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

If you're booting UEFI you need to rename EFI- to EFI on the flash drive.

I chose the UEFI option when making the stick so it seems to have already names it correctly.

 

thanks for the tip though I didn’t know that was a thing!

[JorgeB]

41 minutes ago, MarkMcG93 said:

I chose the UEFI option when making the stick

OK, mentioned it because you said you did it manually, and that way it always needs renaming, also make sure you ran "make_bootable" as admin.

[MarkMcG93]

7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

OK, mentioned it because you said you did it manually, and that way it always needs renaming, also make sure you ran "make_bootable" as admin.

Thanks Jorge. I did it manually via MacOs and it seems to have an option to enable in the terminal window.

 

I got it working, I switched to another usb and it just worked.. no idea what I did differently but pleased its all going now.