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Internal boot issue

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Hey unRAID people,

I am too stupid to make "internal boot" work. I downloaded the USB Creator and installed the latest RC on it. It is booting and I want to set up internal boot. No matter which way I am doing it (boot pool or dedicated install) it just won't work. After I finished the process during installation and restarted the whole thing I am welcomed by this screen (I did it like it was shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMHaMaa8iV0&lc=Ugx2Olu8WOcI6ZooXMx4AaABAg.AWYEM1qqg2wAWYnKRSSwqn):

CDN media

You can see that I tried to create a bootable pool with the two SSDs, but it didn't work. When I try to do the wizard again, I get the same result.

Background information: I just bought a used DXP4800 Plus. It has 4 HDDs and 2 m2 SSDs in it.

It is my first try to install unRAID anywhere, so be patient with me :D I am total noob to this topic.

Solved by SimonF

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5 minutes ago, zeus22 said:

Hey unRAID people,

I am too stupid to make "internal boot" work. I downloaded the USB Creator and installed the latest RC on it. It is booting and I want to set up internal boot. No matter which way I am doing it (boot pool or dedicated install) it just won't work. After I finished the process during installation and restarted the whole thing I am welcomed by this screen (I did it like it was shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMHaMaa8iV0&lc=Ugx2Olu8WOcI6ZooXMx4AaABAg.AWYEM1qqg2wAWYnKRSSwqn):

CDN media

You can see that I tried to create a bootable pool with the two SSDs, but it didn't work. When I try to do the wizard again, I get the same result.

Background information: I just bought a used DXP4800 Plus. It has 4 HDDs and 2 m2 SSDs in it.

It is my first try to install unRAID anywhere, so be patient with me :D I am total noob to this topic.

You may need to go into the bios and change the boot order to use the nvmes as it is still booting from the flash still.

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16 minutes ago, SimonF said:

You may need to go into the bios and change the boot order to use the nvmes as it is still booting from the flash still.

I would agree with you if it wasn't for that remark below the USB-Boot-Drive: "No internal boot setup detected. Launch Internal Boot to configure one."
And even the entry for my internal boot partition doesn't look like it was shown in all the videos.

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21 minutes ago, zeus22 said:

I would agree with you if it wasn't for that remark below the USB-Boot-Drive: "No internal boot setup detected. Launch Internal Boot to configure one."
And even the entry for my internal boot partition doesn't look like it was shown in all the videos.

It will not show the boot partition unless you have booted from it it will just show as a data pool. If you have created a boot pool try setting the nvme as the boot device in the bios and see if it boots. Or find the key to go into the boot menu, F11 for MSI motherboards brings up a list of devices but will be different for you machine

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1 hour ago, SimonF said:

It will not show the boot partition unless you have booted from it it will just show as a data pool. If you have created a boot pool try setting the nvme as the boot device in the bios and see if it boots. Or find the key to go into the boot menu, F11 for MSI motherboards brings up a list of devices but will be different for you machine

I just tried it by also removing the USB flash drive - well - it wasn't booting it just showed "Checking for media". So there is clearly nothing to boot on the SSDs. There are also set as the first boot device in the BIOS.

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Does the BIOS show the UEFI boot option on the NVMe devices? Post a photo of the BIOS boot menu.

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3 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Does the BIOS show the UEFI boot option on the NVMe devices? Post a photo of the BIOS boot menu.

Got these two for you :)

PXL_20260509_095001489.jpg

PXL_20260509_095014289.jpg

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I assume the Sandisk is the flash drive?

If so, there's no UEFI boot option for the NVMe device; you may need to enable it in the BIOS, assuming the BIOS supports that, it woudl show as

UEFI: <name of the NVME device>, example:

image.png

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7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

I assume the Sandisk is the flash drive?

If so, there's no UEFI boot option for the NVMe device; you may need to enable it in the BIOS, assuming the BIOS supports that, it woudl show as

UEFI: <name of the NVME device>, example:

image.png

I guess it doesn't show up as a boot device cause there is nothing to boot on it. And you can see on the second screen that the first boot option is "NVME"

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12 hours ago, zeus22 said:

And you can see on the second screen that the first boot option is "NVME"

That's the legacy boot option, not UEFI, which typically won't work with NVMe

Post the output from

fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1

fdisk -l /dev/nvme1n1

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7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

That's the legacy boot option, not UEFI, which typically won't work with NVMe

Post the output from

fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1

fdisk -l /dev/nvme1n1

Ah I see, thanks for clarification.

I did what you said:

grafik.png

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10 hours ago, SimonF said:

You need to enable boot for the nvmes m2-keym1 and m3 https://youtu.be/yh8Ao5ryOeE?si=3bYHcHgiK-B9w3xy

THANK YOU - that resolved the issue. Now I can see the boot partition on the SSDs in the correct way and can continue my whole setup process. :)

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