June 16, 20224 yr I have a issue I hope someone can help me out. I have a supermicro X8DAH wit dual X5690's in it. I had 2 lsi 9211 8i in it. I received another on today and flashed it to IT mode. I removed my Unraid flash drive so I could flash the 9211 card. when I was finished I powered off my server and re-inserted the unraid flash drive and it will not boot to my unraid. Any help would be appreciated.
June 16, 20224 yr Community Expert Difficult to say without more information on what is happening. Have you checked that the Unraid flash device is still set as the default boot device?
June 16, 20224 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, itimpi said: Have you checked that the Unraid flash device is still set as the default boot device?
June 16, 20224 yr Author 2 hours ago, itimpi said: Difficult to say without more information on what is happening. Have you checked that the Unraid flash device is still set as the default boot device? Yes it is. When it get to the part where it starts to load the os it just has a flashing under score and just sits there.
June 16, 20224 yr Author 3 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you mean it never loads the Unraid boot menu? I am still new to unRAID. After it see's my lsi cards and all my hard drives. It usually does a scan then will show the server login. Then I log in through my main PC.
June 16, 20224 yr Community Expert 7 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you mean it never loads the Unraid boot menu?
June 16, 20224 yr Author 3 minutes ago, trurl said: Is your BIOS booting UEFI or Legacy? I think it is legacy.
June 16, 20224 yr Author 28 minutes ago, trurl said: Is your BIOS booting UEFI or Legacy? It was working great until I unplugged it so I could flash my lsi 9211 8i to IT mode. Would think that would mess up my flash drive.
June 16, 20224 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, glbjr29 said: I think it is legacy. Does your flash drive have a folder named 'EFI' ? This would mean boot UEFI Or is that folder name 'EFI-' ? This would mean boot Legacy Perhaps you had to boot one way for your IT firmware, and another way for your Unraid, and now your BIOS doesn't match the method Unraid needs.
June 16, 20224 yr Author 1 hour ago, trurl said: Does your flash drive have a folder named 'EFI' ? This would mean boot UEFI Or is that folder name 'EFI-' ? This would mean boot Legacy Perhaps you had to boot one way for your IT firmware, and another way for your Unraid, and now your BIOS doesn't match the method Unraid needs. Has a EFI folder
June 16, 20224 yr Community Expert 18 minutes ago, glbjr29 said: Has a EFI folder So you must set your BIOS to boot UEFI.
June 16, 20224 yr Author I don't see uefi in any of my bios settings. Edited June 16, 20224 yr by glbjr29
June 16, 20224 yr Community Expert If your motherboard doesn't support UEFI then you must rename that folder to EFI-
June 16, 20224 yr Author 2 minutes ago, trurl said: If your motherboard doesn't support UEFI then you must rename that folder to EFI- Could my flash drive went bad or should I reload my flash drive. If so how do I do that? I have a backup.
June 16, 20224 yr Author 2 minutes ago, trurl said: If your motherboard doesn't support UEFI then you must rename that folder to EFI- It is named EFI-
June 17, 20224 yr Community Expert 10 hours ago, trurl said: 10 hours ago, glbjr29 said: Has a EFI folder So you must set your BIOS to boot UEFI. Just a quick note, EFI folder allows UEFI boot, but it doesn't require it, i.e., if the folder is named EFI you can boot Unraid legacy or UEFI, if the folder is named EFI- you can only boot Unraid in legacy/BIOS mode.
June 17, 20224 yr Author 6 hours ago, JorgeB said: Just a quick note, EFI folder allows UEFI boot, but it doesn't require it, i.e., if the folder is named EFI you can boot Unraid legacy or UEFI, if the folder is named EFI- you can only boot Unraid in legacy/BIOS mode. My folder is EFI-. Not sure my server can run UEFI.
June 17, 20224 yr Community Expert I would suggest re-creating the flash drive, or just trying with a new trial one just to see if it boots and if that is the problem.
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