October 21, 20241 yr I purchased a mini pc last week with the hope of setting up a second Unraid server. it's all pretty off the shelf parts, but I seem to be unable to get it to boot from the USB key. I'm genuinely stumped. I ran the standard usb stick creator and the 'make bootable' extra afterwards. When I boot to the machine, I can get to the bios and set boot sequence, and am selecting the drive as the first in the boot order. However, it'll either go to a UFEI shell prompt, or windows (preinstalled). Has anyone ever run into this, and is there any sort of button I'm missing? There's not a lot of buttons on BIOS. I'll grab some photos in a bit, but I can't really send diagnostics if I can't boot. Thanks!
October 21, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution See if there's a select boot device key during post, typically F8 or F11, and if there is, post a photo showing the menu options.
October 21, 20241 yr Community Expert Have you made sure that the EFI folder on the flash drive does not have a trailing '-' character if you want to use UEFI boot?
October 21, 20241 yr Author Well, this is awkward. I changed nothing, and now it's booting. fine. I....I don't know. Yay? Thanks for all your insight!
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