January 20, 20251 yr Given the new licensing schema, I would like to ask that the requirement to use a USB device be dropped. They are at size parity with SSD's and I would love to be able to boot properly on my Asus MOBO without issue.
January 21, 20251 yr They did say in a community update a while back that they were looking into other ways to do it as an option, but as far as I can see it's still the best method for managing the licence without potentially opening the doors to piracy, and it works with the way unraid's array/pool structure works. Maybe unlinking the licence from the USB, while still using as the boot device, but that opens a can of worms requiring more invasive licence verification methods. I wouldn't want to use up any space on the storage disks for unraid's boot for various reasons (wouldn’t it have to be duplicated on every disk to cover for a disk failure?), and it wouldn’t even be possible on some users setups with purely ZFS or BTRFS based systems, as it would require a bootloader to mount the pool, and plenty of people use HBA's with the bios removed, so no disks available at boot time.
January 26, 20251 yr Simple idea: keep the usb stick for license check, but boot from any disk. my main issue with the stick is: sometimes my pc doesn’t detect it on boot.
January 26, 20251 yr 1 minute ago, Mpwg said: Simple idea: keep the usb stick for license check, but boot from any disk. my main issue with the stick is: sometimes my pc doesn’t detect it on boot. Do you have fast boot enabled in bios?
January 26, 20251 yr No. Ot only happens Sometimes (not always, maybe 10-20% of cold boots) i guess its some issue with my board.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.