March 23, 201214 yr Hi, I'm unRAID 5.0b14 and haven't had any problems booting until recently. I bought a plus key and powered down the server in anticipation of putting the key file on it. After waiting a little while, I decided to turn it back on without the key because I needed to get to some files on it. Now, after POST, I just get a blinking cursor. I've triple checked the boot order, disabled all other boot devices except for the flash drive, tried forcing the flash drive as fdd or hdd, gone into the BIOS' boot order menu and manually selected the flash drive, etc. It doesn't matter what I do. I removed the flash drive and put it in another computer and had no problem booting from the flash drive; the unRAID boot menu came up right away. Could this mean there's a problem with the motherboard?
March 23, 201214 yr Try other USB ports. My old motherboard would only boot unraid from one on-board USB port.
March 24, 201214 yr Its odd that it will not boot back up. Did you change ports? I'd copy everything off of the flash and then run the HP format utility as described in the wiki. Usually when a MB is finicky(which I know yours didn't use to be) that will get it to boot. I don't think its a MB going bad, although you can try loading another OS up, possibly try loading a live distro or something to see if everything works.
March 24, 201214 yr Author I have tried switching among the 6 USB ports available, and it's the same with all the them. I originally formatted the flash drive with the HP format utility as described, but I'll try again and report back.
March 24, 201214 yr I have tried switching among the 6 USB ports available, and it's the same with all the them. I originally formatted the flash drive with the HP format utility as described, but I'll try again and report back. after reformatting, you still need to use the syslinux tool to make the flash drive bootable. And... you must run syslinux as an administrator on vista/win7, or it will not write to the flash drive. Joe L.
March 25, 201214 yr Author I reformatted the drive, using syslinux (well specifically, using the make_bootable script) as admin to make the drive bootable. Unforunately, it's the same result as before.
March 28, 201214 yr Based on my experience the blinking cursor happens when the USB drive has not been set as the boot device. Beyond that i'm out of ideas.
March 28, 201214 yr Just a thought... did you try clearing the CMOS & removing the battery for a while...?
March 28, 201214 yr I had a problem a week or so ago and decided to revisit my Bios setup on my Sempron using the BioStar board. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#Budget_Box Scroll down just a bit from that URL to check out the "First Time Configuration" of course your motherboard might not have the same exact settings, but it should at least give you something to look into. Oddly enough when I swapped out the USB stick to try another one it magicly changed a setting and I couldn't boot. Of course mine was givening me an error saying "No Boot Device" not just a blinking cursor.
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