Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

 

Trying to install unRAID basic on an MSI K8N-Neo FSR (nVidia nForce3 250gb with gigabit LAN), 2 500gb SATA's and an old 120gb IDE drive with a SanDisk Cruzer micro 1gb USB drive. I finally just stopped trying to make the boot disk with my Vista64 system and used my Dell Laptop with Windows XP Pro and was able to uninstall U3, install unRAID and get the mobo to boot using USB-FDD in the BIOS.

 

When the system boots a bunch of text runs by. It then seems to pause after saying "Mounting non-root local filesystems:", then says "mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID does not exist"

 

I saw a post in the archives and thought I might not have named the USB correctly so I reformatted the USB drive, reinstalled unRAID and got the same error after I made sure to name it [no quotes] "UNRAID"

 

I've been playing around with FreeNAS as well and have been able to get it to work at least to the point where I could add drives, format them, create shares, enable CIFS and transfer files from my PC to FreeNAS.

 

The biggest difference I noted between the installs was the FreeNAS USB drive shows up as a hard drive in the BIOS hard drive boot order and I have to use USB-FDD with unRAID.

 

I don't know enough about Linux or BSD to explain this any better and realize I'm probably not giving you enough information to really help me, but I hoped someone would have an idea about where to look next.

I searched the board for your error message and found a post.  Coincidentally, the last response was mine.

 

I believe the problem is that you didn't completely remove the U3 software, though there was no evidence that this was indeed the issue.  Anyway, check it out and see if it helps.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1116.0

 

 

Bill

Sometimes it's the simplest thing... I didn't pay enough attention to your link. I used an uninstall utility on SanDisk's website and assumed [quite incorrectly] that their utility for their product on their website would work. Silly me.

 

In any case, your link cleaned up the USB drive. After I ran it, re-formatted, reinstalled unRAID and then rebooted the NAS computer, it showed up in the hard drive menu in the hard disk boot order in the BIOS and unRAID seems to have booted up just fine.

 

Thanks for your help!