I'm having trouble making my Lexar FireFly USB flash drive bootable.  On my Windows XP system, I am clicking of the"syslinux" file as directed in the Lime Technology wiki says.  What happens is a command window promptly opens and then closes.  Any advice as to what might be going on?

Did you run as Administrator?

Did you format your USB stick and give it the name UNRAID (case sensitive) ?

Did you run as Administrator?

 

Yup. Sure did.

Did you format your USB stick and give it the name UNRAID (case sensitive) ?

 

Yeah. Made sure I followed the wiki to a "T".

Below is a screen of the command window when right-clicking and selecting "run as administrator". After pressing a key, the window immediately closes.

 

Below is a screen of the command window when right-clicking and selecting "run as administrator". After pressing a key, the window immediately closes.

I haven't used this utility and can't really say if this is okay or not, the USB stick should have the file "ldlinux.sys" on it, does it?

Below is a screen of the command window when right-clicking and selecting "run as administrator". After pressing a key, the window immediately closes.

 

 

This is correct.

There is no visible change when the drive is made bootable, a hidden file is added.  If you enable hidden files in your view settings you should be able to see it.  But the real proof is when you actually boot your server from it...have you tried booting from the flash drive yet?

There is no visible change when the drive is made bootable, a hidden file is added.  If you enable hidden files in your view settings you should be able to see it.  But the real proof is when you actually boot your server from it...have you tried booting from the flash drive yet?

 

I've enabled hidden files and don't see the "ldlinux.sys" referenced below. Are there other ways to make a usb flash drive bootable?

 

 

 

 

 

Have you tried to boot with it?

Have you tried to boot with it?

 

I have, and I made sure to follow Johnm's screenshots regarding the X9SCM's Bios settings. Time to do some more playing around with it to see if I can get up and going.