October 13, 201114 yr I apologize if this has been posted and answered before. I searched and searched and based on the terms I searched for, I did not find the question or the answer. The problem I am having is that if I shut down then start up, something (I'm assuming the mobo and bios) forgets to boot from the USB and/or just hangs after posting, initializing the raid cards etc.. I have to reboot, go into the bios, save the settings (which are sometimes correct, sometimes not with regards to which drive to boot off of), then it reboots and all is well. If you have any ideas, I would appreciate it. I've had my unRaid running for about a month, running Pro 5beta12.
October 13, 201114 yr Try playing with your BIOS's USB drive emulation settings. Set it to emulate the USB drive as a hard drive. This should get the boot order to stick. Whenever you swap a drive that is connected directly to the motherboard you still may need to manually change the boot order again. Pretty much every motherboard on the market has this problem, there isn't much that can be done about it. At least you have IPMI so you can do it from a web page! If you are a using SASLP card, then boot in the card's BIOS and disable INT13. This setting means that no drive connected to the card can ever steal boot priority. I wish motherboards had that setting!
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