October 5, 201114 yr Hi - go easy on me I'm a virgin! Attempting to set up a N36l Microserver as an unRaid box. I've used unetbootin to create the unRAID flash boot drive on my Mac with a Kingston Data Traveller 2, plugged it in, set the Emulation Type to Forced FDD etc I've currently got no drives installed and no ethernet cable plugged in. When I start it up, it gets past POST PROMPTS and then CLIENT MAC ADDR: 3C D9 D9 etc GUID: etc DHCP with a / spinning PXE-E53: No boot filename received and thats as far as I get! I've tried looking extensively on the forums/wiki for help. where to now?
October 6, 201114 yr Author OK, I worked out it was trying to boot from the network so I turned that off in the bios. Now I get to a blue screen with 'UNetbootin' at the top. Below is 'Default' and then in Red "Press [Tab] to edit options "Automatic boot in 10 seconds" It counts down and nothing happens...
October 6, 201114 yr OK, I worked out it was trying to boot from the network so I turned that off in the bios. Now I get to a blue screen with 'UNetbootin' at the top. Below is 'Default' and then in Red "Press [Tab] to edit options "Automatic boot in 10 seconds" It counts down and nothing happens... I don't think I've ever heard of anyone using unetbootin to load a flash drive with unRAID. The silence and absence of responses are because you are trying something nobody else has experience with to give guidance. I've heard of people using GRUB, and syslinux, but not unetbootin (which usually needs an ISO image, doesn't it?) Joe L
October 6, 201114 yr Author I tried to make the boot flash drive using xp and windows 7 and it wasn't working so I've been trying this on my mac http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation#MacOS_X_-_Windows_-_Linux
October 6, 201114 yr I tried to make the boot flash drive using xp and windows 7 and it wasn't working so I've been trying this on my mac http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation#MacOS_X_-_Windows_-_Linux I had never seen that in the wiki. I would try a different flash drive. Many BIOS don't like some flash drives for some reason, older BIOS can't deal with larger size flash drives (over 2Gig drives did not exist when they were written) regardless of how you load the flash drive, you'll need to set the BIOS to boot from USB and also select the specific boot device. On my BIOS it shows up as a bootable hard disk.
October 6, 201114 yr I know unetbootin works... I am the one that wrote the greenleaf tutorial. Not sure what you may have missed in the step, but it should work.
October 6, 201114 yr Author Its a 4GB data traveler... that make any difference? The only things on the disk are ldlinux.sys menu.c32 syslinux.cfg ubnfilel.txt ubnpathl.txt Is that all that should be on there?
October 6, 201114 yr Author Ive now tried unetbootin method with three usb drives - still the blue screen as described earlier. starting to lose hair...
October 6, 201114 yr Sorry to hear your troubles, You should try using windows again to setup your unRaid flash drive. The procedure posted on the website works as written. If that does not work for you then I believe there is another issue. Setting up the flash per the procedure should take just a few minutes. I have setup up two using windows 7 and followed procedure step by step and both worked fine. Check that bios setup again just to make sure. Maybe post some screen shots of bios setup screens associated with boot device selection and boot priority. Good luck, Jim S.
October 6, 201114 yr Its a 4GB data traveler... that make any difference? The only things on the disk are ldlinux.sys menu.c32 syslinux.cfg ubnfilel.txt ubnpathl.txt Is that all that should be on there? It should contain the entire contents of the unRAID zip file download. You are missing several files.
October 6, 201114 yr Author Its a 4GB data traveler... that make any difference? The only things on the disk are ldlinux.sys menu.c32 syslinux.cfg ubnfilel.txt ubnpathl.txt Is that all that should be on there? It should contain the entire contents of the unRAID zip file download. You are missing several files. Thats what I thought. I've tried just manually copying the missing files over but that doesn't work either. I've tried the windows method using XP on VMware Fusion with these three drives too and that didn't work. Bios wise, I've tried to copy these settings (although not the Russian bios part) seeing they worked for Tim. http://www.avforums.com/forums/networking-nas/1429720-tims-7-24tb-tiddler-unraid-nas.html
October 7, 201114 yr Author AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! its booted up! I tried again on XP/Fusion, FAT32 and it worked for some reason. Thanks SO much for the advice. Now onto the next steps...
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