Just installed unRaid for the first time and its booting to the command line no gui or option to finish setting up the system. I burned a new flash drive thinking something went wrong with the first drive. I have rebooted still only command line except for a blank blue and white menu that comes up initially with text underneath that says press tab to edit and a count down to boot. But that menu has nothing in it just blue and white with above mentioned text. then it gets to a login cli and i enter root and enter and I get a green root@tower cli. I tried a few random things I have seen online from other users but nothing helped to get the gui up so i could finish the install and setup my drives etc. Been at this all day and am almost to the point of installing truenas but really dont want to go that way. But with as much trouble i am having I am glad I didnt buy it before i tried like I was going to do. Hopefully this is something simple and I can get things up and running tomorrow. since I cant get into the system yet I dont have any log files but I am installing on a Dell Optiplex 7050 with 2 ssd's and 2 hdd's.

Can you access the webUI from another computer? 

Did you get the Unraid boot menu which gives you several boot options?  The default is to boot to console mode which your screen shot shows seems to show has happened, but if you got the boot menu you can instead select to boot to GUI mode.  

 

Regardless have you tried connecting to the Unraid server from another machine with a web browser (on the displayed address which seems to be 192.168.0.105 at this point).   This should bring up the web GUI.   It is the traditional way that Unraid has been administered from before the days that there was even a GUI boot mode.

 

If for any reason that does not work then you can type the word 'diagnostics' on the console shown in your screen shot and that will create a file in the 'logs' folder on the flash drive that you can post here (in your next post) so we can see what might be going wrong.

4 hours ago, itimpi said:

connecting to the Unraid server from another machine with a web browser (on the displayed address which seems to be 192.168.0.105 at this point).   This should bring up the web GUI.   It is the traditional way that Unraid has been administered

Many of us run headless and rely on this method.

Presuming you can connect remotely from another computer from a web browser and bring up the GUI:
I had this problem with a brand new Unraid setup (v. 7.1.4) on a motherboard/CPU that I'd previously been using as an Unraid system for around ten YEARS and it always booted to web GUI without problems. I was pretty stumped. Since I'd moved my previous Unraid flash, storage, and parity drives to new motherboard/CPU hardware, I checked the append code I'd been using for the web GUI, and noticed it was different from the default.

Changing my new 7.1.4 Unraid web GUI boot settings to the settings on my other system absolutely worked and now the 7.1.4 system (on old motherboard/CPU) boots to the web GUI.

Here's the code for the web GUI that I'm using:

kernel /bzimage

append pcie_acs_override=multifunction initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui

To be really clear, from another computer and web browser, connect to your Unraid server's web GUI, go to MAIN tab, find your FLASH drive and click on that. Scroll down to Syslinux Configuration, find Unraid OS GUI Mode, tick the button to select it, then edit the code and click DONE. Reboot, and that's what fixed it for me.

Now it's my turn to face this login prompt. The append code suggested by @Printingdude didn't make any difference to me.

My server has local KVM that was rarely used, however I am certain that the boot-up didn't stop at a login prompt before I made some changes...

My boot device had begun to show errors, and running first-aid on my Mac found problems but failed to repair them, so I replaced the thumb drive. I used a backup from my previous setup to initialise the new thumb drive. It booted up and upon replacing the UNRAID registration key, I then decided to update the OS to v7.3.

Now when I start the server, I get to the login prompt on the local console. If I try to access the GUI from the browser on another computer by server_name.local, I get a 404 screen. However, I can reach it by its IP address. File access seems to work fine. What's wrong? untroll-diagnostics-20260513-1723.zip

untroll-diagnostics-20260513-1723.zip

Edited May 13May 13 by daTroll
removed duplicated file attachment

17 minutes ago, daTroll said:

from the browser on another computer by server_name.local, I get a 404 screen.

That was probably a browser cache problem. From yet another computer I can access the GUI by using the server name. Everything seems to be working fine. Is it normal (from v7.3 or some recent update) that the default boot-up stops with a login prompt on the server's console?

15 hours ago, daTroll said:

That was probably a browser cache problem. From yet another computer I can access the GUI by using the server name. Everything seems to be working fine. Is it normal (from v7.3 or some recent update) that the default boot-up stops with a login prompt on the server's console?

That has always been the default behaviour for all Unraid releases. You can change what is the default from the GUI by clicking on the Boot device on the Main screen. Sounds as if you want one of the GUI boot options?

22 hours ago, itimpi said:

That has always been the default behaviour for all Unraid releases.

Thanks for confirming. I just don’t recall that being the case with my old flash drive. Maybe my recollection is wrong or maybe there was an issue I wasn’t fully aware of. Anyway, now I know all is well.

On 5/13/2026 at 5:52 PM, daTroll said:

That was probably a browser cache problem.

I still couldn't open the GUI using server_name.local on my desk browser, despite reboot and cache purge. The 404 nginx error was not a browser cache error after all. Somehow, it appears that during the migration to the new boot USB stick, SSL/TLS was disabled under Settings > Management Access > (first tab) > Use SSL/TLS. Just reporting it here in case someone else is facing the same problem. This post told me where to look: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/133846-unable-to-view-management-console/#findComment-1216389

Edited May 16May 16 by daTroll
fix typo

Please see my post here, might be related, 7.3.0 is picky about how the USB drive is formatted: [DIAGNOSED + WORKAROUND] 7.3.0: emhttpd ENOFLASH4 — flash rejected, GUID = (null) on legacy whole-device FAT (superfloppy) USBs - General Support - Unraid

I also had this issue with NGINX error after upgrading from 7.2.6 to 7.3.0 (worked perfectly fine since 2017 up to 2 days ago when upgraded to 7.3.0)