glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Do you have a flash backup? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 2 hours ago, trurl said: Do you have a flash backup? Yes I do Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 2 hours ago, itimpi said: Have you checked that the Unraid flash device is still set as the default boot device? Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Do you mean it never loads the Unraid boot menu? Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you mean it never loads the Unraid boot menu? Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, trurl said: Correct. Never gets that far. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Is your BIOS booting UEFI or Legacy? Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, trurl said: Is your BIOS booting UEFI or Legacy? I think it is legacy. Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 18 minutes ago, glbjr29 said: Has a EFI folder So you must set your BIOS to boot UEFI. Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 (edited) I don't see uefi in any of my bios settings. Edited June 16, 2022 by glbjr29 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 If your motherboard doesn't support UEFI then you must rename that folder to EFI- Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Troubleshooting#Boot_Issues Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, trurl said: If your motherboard doesn't support UEFI then you must rename that folder to EFI- It is named EFI- Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
glbjr29 Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
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