so i had unraid working for a while then i went away for a bit and now i cant get it to boot to the original usb that worked or a another one that i tried a fresh install on. i don't know what changed but the 2 usbs are identical and bought at the same time. the server im trying to run unraid on is a HPE ML350 G9. so any help wold be good im still very new at all of this kinda stuff so its probably just something stupid i missed so any help wold be great

Do you have an attached keyboard and monitor?

yea i do

 

What do you see on the monitor when you try to boot?

the server will go though post and try to boot to unraid screen will flash black then it try the rest of the boot order. it will do the same thing if i select the usb from the onetime boot menu.

So it doesn't actually boot to Unraid boot menu? Why do you even have anything else in the boot order?

 

How did you prepare the other flash drive that you tried?

no boot menu, i dont have anything in the boot order. the second one i prepared i tried the unraid flash tool(ran as admin) that didn't work then tried the manual method of extracting the zip renaming the usb drive to "UNRAID" and ran the make bootabel .bat file as admin. the first drive that worked for a while was made with the flash tool

Can you boot any other computer with either flash you prepared?

no, nether will boot to a vm or bear metal

UEFI or not?

 

 

yea UEFI

Backup config folder from flash, it has your configuration which is all you need to restore to a new install.

 

Then try this:

 

just tried that and unfortunately it didn't work

15 hours ago, Mick Dassive said:

yea UEFI

Is the folder on flash named EFI (must be for UEFI boot) and not EFI- ?

Are you booting from USB2 port? USB2 is more reliable for this.

the "EFI" folder thing was it thank you for the help