Unable to boot from USB Asus Pro WS W680-ACE

[ZVeguillaCotto]

Motherboard: Asus Pro WS W680-ACE

CPU: i5-12600K

Memory: Crucial 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR5-4800 UDIMM CT2K8G48C40U5

PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower PF3 ATX 3.0 1050W

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D9L

USB: SAMSUNG BAR Plus 3.1 64GB

No other hardware connected yet.

 

Symptoms: Motherboard keeps going into BIOS settings.

 

I tried using the Unraid USB Creator in a M1 Mac, tried both "Allow UEFI Boot" and not. Unraid 6.12.4.

When using the tool no "EFI" folder could be seen in Mac's file explorer.

Tried multiple BIOS configurations:

Virtualizations are enabled and IOMMU.

Tried force changing USB configurations "Auto" and "Forced FDD".

Tried Secure Boot Mode "Standard" and "Custom"

Have not tried deleting/clearing the "Secure Boot Keys".

Tried "Fast Boot" enabled and disabled.

 

And many other variations and combinations of these settings.

 

Tried making a manual USB boot drive, finally saw EFI folder and tried with and without "-".

 

No luck.

 

Any help?

 

TIA.

[JonathanM]

Does the USB stick have a single partition, formatted FAT32?

[ZVeguillaCotto]

2 minutes ago, JonathanM said:

Does the USB stick have a single partition, formatted FAT32?

Yes. OSX calls it "MS-DOS" see attached screen caps 

[JonathanM]

Did you erase the files from the manual install attempt?

[ZVeguillaCotto]

Just now, JonathanM said:

Did you erase the files from the manual install attempt?

Yes. In preparation for help.

[JonathanM]

Follow all the steps here, and try to boot again. Be very sure the motherboard is set to "other OS", not "Windows UEFI mode"

[ZVeguillaCotto]

1 minute ago, JonathanM said:

Follow all the steps here, and try to boot again. Be very sure the motherboard is set to "other OS", not "Windows UEFI mode"

That's the guide I followed before.

 

Will do it again from scratch and report back.

 

You don't think the USB's 64GB size is an issue? It wasn't on a previous install but I still ask.

[JonathanM]

1 minute ago, ZVeguillaCotto said:

You don't think the USB's 64GB size is an issue?

It may be, and if you had access to a windows machine I would have advised you to try reformatting with RUFUS. I am unfamiliar with the options available on a mac.

[ZVeguillaCotto]

Reformatted drive, now it says

"USB External Physical Disk • Master Boot Record" for the Samsung Flash Drive Media 64.16GB

"USB External Physical Volume • MS-DOS (FAT32)" for the UNRAID 62.16 partition

 

Downloaded "unRAIDServer-6.12.4-x86_64.zip" from the website.

I opened the zip in my download folder and copied the "unRAIDServer-6.12.4-x86_64" folder to USB drive.

Removed "-" from EFI- folder.

Ran the executable "make_bootable_mac"

 

Terminal output:

 

Quote

 

INFO: make_bootable_mac v1.3

 

INFO: The following drive appears to be the unRAID USB Flash drive:

/dev/disk6

64.2GB

 

Permit UEFI boot mode [Y/N]: y

cp: /Volumes/UNRAID/syslinux/*: No such file or directory

To continue please enter your admin Password:

sudo: /tmp/UNRAID/syslinux/make_bootable_mac.sh: command not found

 

Saving session...

...copying shared history...

...saving history...truncating history files...

...completed.

 

[Process completed]

 

 

Transferred USB to machine, turn on straight to BIOS, switched some settings as mention in OP and still batting in BIOS.

 

Awaiting specific settings guidance or further instructions.

[JonathanM]

40 minutes ago, ZVeguillaCotto said:

I opened the zip in my download folder and copied the "unRAIDServer-6.12.4-x86_64" folder to USB drive.

The entire folder, or the contents?

 

There should be multiple bz* files in the root of the flash, as well as the config, efi, and other folders.

[ZVeguillaCotto]

13 minutes ago, JonathanM said:

The entire folder, or the contents?

 

There should be multiple bz* files in the root of the flash, as well as the config, efi, and other folders.

The single, entire folder. The EFI- folder and others are INSIDE the folder I move.

[JonathanM]

18 minutes ago, ZVeguillaCotto said:

The single, entire folder. The EFI- folder and others are INSIDE the folder I move.

That's an issue. I don't know if it's THE issue, but like I said, you need to copy the contents of the zip file, then run the make bootable. The make bootable script should be in the root of the flash drive along with the efi and all the other folders and files.

[ZVeguillaCotto]

8 hours ago, JonathanM said:

That's an issue. I don't know if it's THE issue, but like I said, you need to copy the contents of the zip file, then run the make bootable. The make bootable script should be in the root of the flash drive along with the efi and all the other folders and files.

 

This was the fix. Instead of moving the entire "unRAIDServer-6.12.4-x86_64" unzipped folder. I moved all the second level files and folders (19 of them).

 

When running the "make_bootable_mac" it prompted me for "Permit UEFI boot mode [Y/N]: y" and it self-edited the "EFI-" folder by itself but gave an "syslinux" permission/safety error. Went to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General -> "Open anyway", and ran the "make_bootable_mac" again.

 

This time no syslinux" permission/safety error.

 

Bootable USB made successfully.

 

Right now I have booted and browsing other topics for no IP address.

[itimpi]

3 minutes ago, ZVeguillaCotto said:

Right now I have booted and browsing other topics for no IP address.

 

You should post your system's diagnostics zip file in your next post in this thread to get more informed feedback.  It is always a good idea to post this if your question might involve us seeing how you have things set up or to look at recent logs.

 

[ZVeguillaCotto]

9 hours ago, itimpi said:

 

You should post your system's diagnostics zip file in your next post in this thread to get more informed feedback.  It is always a good idea to post this if your question might involve us seeing how you have things set up or to look at recent logs.

 

This was as suspected my fault for plugging an ethernet cable in a VLAN port.

 

Fixed.

 

Marked as solved.

 

Seems my issue was the usb creator NOT creating a bootable drive, maybe because it was improperly formatted but doing the manual worked when followed instructions. Instructions no not clarify the files on the USB should not be the single folder (this may happen with how OSX extracts or how Archive Utility works in my computer).

 

Thanks to @JonathanM for the help.

 

/close /solved