February 26, 20233 yr I have a R720xd runnning Unraid for a while now and it is working just fine. My home lab (hobby) and the higher electricity costs we are all experiencing and I have decided to migrate to newer hardware to try to decrease my power consumption. I have the new hadware installed in a rackmount case I was gifted and has a trial license runnning. It all works fine. I started to copy files from the original server to the trial version and I figured I would just transfer the license to the new setup once all is complete. I have been reading and learning the unraid file system and how it works. So I started to move my data in my original server to my large drives to eventually remove the older smaller drives. It took a few days and finally had all the data moved and consolidated to the newer larger drives. I reconfigured the setup and removed to empty drives. I powered down the R720xd and started to migrate the drives and hardware to the new build. I tried to power the new hardware up and it would not boot. I unplugged all the drives so only the usb and the NVME drives were attached, and still lwould not bnoot. I tried replacing the usb key with the trial one I was using to test, and it boots just fine. After a couple hours and frustration. I moved the drives and usb key back to me R720xd and i have it running again. I don't know what else to do. Should I back up the config and restore the config on the new usb drive and try it again since I know that one will boot. Then if it will boot on old config with out drives. Maybe I will just return the new hardware since it would take a while to get the ROI of the new harware. Thanks, Edited March 13, 20233 yr by googen75 SOLVED
February 26, 20233 yr Community Expert You do not say how it is ‘failing’ to boot? What (if anything) is showing on locally attached monitor?
February 27, 20233 yr Author It just goes to the network boot screen option as that is the last boot option. I looked at both usb sticks, and they both have the "EFI" folder without the hyphen "EFI-"
February 27, 20233 yr Community Expert 4 hours ago, googen75 said: It just goes to the network boot screen option as that is the last boot option. I looked at both usb sticks, and they both have the "EFI" folder without the hyphen "EFI-" Have you checked in the BIOS that it is seeing the USB drive as a bootable device and that it is the first boot device selected?
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