After a replacing of my motherboard (it's an Asus M4A89gtd Pro AMD-based board) we are having a hard time getting 4.7 to boot. It worked fine on the previous motherboard. So far I have followed the instructions using a clean install of 4.7 thinking that my previously  version had become corrupt.

 

Still no luck. I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with this Asus board as it seems to be having all kinds of niggling problems that others on the board don't seem to have.

 

I am thinking of getting a supermicro MBD-X8SIL board and starting over --hopefully my old 4.7 system which I have backed up will work on the supermicro board.

 

Should I stick with the Asus or go with a SuperMicro- don't mind spending the $$$ if it is reliable.

 

Any suggestions about the boot problem would be appreciated.

 

 

I used the instructions provided here:

 

MacOS X - Windows - Linux

Note: The directions below should work just fine. I have also put together a small write-up for creating the unRAID USB boot drive using the process described below. The write-ups can be found at:

Here is the Windows write-up using unetbootin.

Here is the OS X write-up using unetbootin.

 

1. download unetbootin from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ for your OS

2. plug usb stick at least 512 MB in your PC (recomended 1GB+)

3. format usb stick to mbr partition with fat32 file system and name it UNRAID (the volume label must be UNRAID, 6 characters, all capital letters)

4. Download unRAID zip file (i have done this with version 4.7)

5. change extension from zip to iso

6. start unetbootini again

7. Chose diskimage (the one you renamed - you dont have to select distribution)

8. Change type to USB drive and select your drive (in my case /dev/disk2s1)*

9. Click on OK

now its building your USB stick, wait while it decompresses file to the USB stick and installs syslinux and makes it bootable

When it says it found some files (menu.c32) and asks to overwrite, just answer YES TO ALL

After its finished, eject your USB stick, insert it in your new "ServerPC" and boot

 

 

Have you tried the process described here?

 

http://lime-technology.com/support/unraid-server-installation

 

If it doesn't work please at least provide error messages so we have somewhere to start.

Yes I did follow the instructions at the link cyrnel posted. The only error message I am seeing is this: Remove disks or other media.Press any key to restart. We have exchanged the Asus motherboard for the supermicro motherboard mentioned below. We are getting the same message with the supermicro so I am thinking there's something wrong with my flash drive set up. Could I have lost the licensing information somehow?

 

 

Yes I did follow the instructions at the link cyrnel posted. The only error message I am seeing is this: Remove disks or other media.Press any key to restart. We have exchanged the Asus motherboard for the supermicro motherboard mentioned below. We are getting the same message with the supermicro so I am thinking there's something wrong with my flash drive set up. Could I have lost the licensing information somehow?

 

 

 

You should still be able to boot the free version of unRAID no matter.

 

It sounds as if the unRAID drive is not being set up as the boot device.  You will more than likely have to go into the BIOS of the computer and set the flash drive as the boot device.

The Asus board should work, not the best as I've had problems with it clashing with the Supermicor AOC SASLP cards which can be fixed and the onboard LAN which I've replaced.

 

It does work and is stable though.

 

It sounds like the usb drive isn't set to boot from in the bios.

 

Josh

No it is defiantly set to boot from the bios. I have triple checked that.

 

Should I download the free version, put it on another flash drive and try it?

Assigning boot priority can be tricky on some boards. Have you tried using the F12 or whatever option so you can choose the boot device from a list?

 

After that, yes, I'd try another flash drive with a generic copy of unRAID. If it doesn't work then go back to the BIOS USB settings and boot options.

Yes! We were able to get it to boot. Instead of formatting the flash drive on my Mac I used son's PC and and made sure to use the make bootable function.  However we are not able to access the server using the previous IP address. Would the IP address have changed because of a new motherboard?

 

 

 

 

Most likely if you have a router that auto assigns IP addressess. A new Mac usually is a new IP address.

 

Log into your router and you should be able to check the IP address otherwise (for windows) you may be able to get there by typing 'tower' instead of the ip address

 

Josh

The IP suggestion worked thanks!