Help installing

[Rod25]

Hope someone can assist with a brand new install attempt  by a Unraid novice. Everything OK until I try and install when it thows an error as follow:

Checking  /dev/sda1

fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)

FAT-fs  (sda1) : bogus number of reserved sectors

FAT-fs  (sda1) : Can't find a valid FAT filesystem

mount :boot: wrong fs type

 

From there it fails and asks to reboot. This is an old HP microserver Im trying to install on to an SSD .

 

Any assistance much appreciated because I have no idea how to proceed.

 

[trurl]

How are you creating the flash drive? 

 

[ConnerVT]

17 hours ago, Rod25 said:

From there it fails and asks to reboot. This is an old HP microserver Im trying to install on to an SSD

 

Unraid doesn't boot from a SSD.  It is designed to boot from a USB Flash drive, one that provides a unique GUID.

[trurl]

The Unraid OS is contained in archives on the boot flash. These archives are unpacked fresh at each boot into RAM and the OS runs completely in RAM. Think of it as firmware. The boot flash also contains settings from the webUI (your configuration) so these can be reapplied at boot to that fresh OS. None of the OS installs to any of your storage.

[TrickyDikc]

I'm trying to install the OS onto a bootable USB.  I have a new USB drive. The UnRaid USB installer says the USB disk does not have guid.   Not sure how to fix.

It apparently has 2 partitions, one small partition, maybe reserved for something I don't really know, and also a larger partition for data storage.  I deleted this partition/volume.  Didn't work.   I tried using CMD to clean the disk and create a partition primary.  Did not work.

 

any advice appreciated.

[trurl]

1 hour ago, TrickyDikc said:

USB disk does not have guid

Try a different one

[Rod25]

On 9/9/2024 at 11:26 AM, trurl said:

How are you creating the flash drive? 

 

Using the Unraid flash installer.  The only way I got this to run was having two flash drives connected to usb ,then one would be recognised as sda1