January 29, 200818 yr Ok, I really want to try this but for the life of me i keep getting stuck at the beginning. I must be missing something in creating the boot USB thumb drive. I quick formatted it as Fat 32 with the volume name UNRAID, I ran the syslinux.exe command - I know it worked because the ldlinux.sys file appears on the root. I then unzip the files for 4.2.1 or 4 to the root of the drive. But I can't ever get any of my machines to boot to it - it never even starts loading. I know it's not the machines or the two different thumb drives I tried because I can get them both to boot Freenas off of USB. Any tips? There must be something basic that I'm doing wrong. I get the feeling the USB drive isn't getting made bootable. Is there some sort of command ine option i need to set for the syslinux.exe?
January 29, 200818 yr Sounds like you are doing everything right. Perhaps a file is missing from the Flash? Refer to attached image. (Note: ldlinux.sys will not be visible unless you have 'Show hidden files and folders' set in Folder Options).
January 30, 200818 yr Author It did have ldlinux.sys - I verified that each time I tried doing it. Oddly I reran the sdlinux.exe with the -ma switch and that seemed to solve it.
January 30, 200818 yr Department of longshots: Can it be something really basic, like having the unraid files in a toplevel directory instead of the root of the USB? /Rene
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