October 10, 201213 yr Hello all.. I have been having problems with my old Lexar Firefly, so I just bought a new SanDisk Cruzer. I followed the instructions on the WIKI to prepare a flash disk, installing 5.0rc8a on the stick with unetbootin. But.. it won't boot. I've reformatted and rerun unetbootin 5 times now.. downloaded unraid twice and every time, it just boots to "inset boot device and press a key...". I can unplug the SanDisk and plug in my old Lexar and press enter and it boots. As far as I can tell the only difference is that my Lexar was 1GB and my SanDisk is 4. I have noticed that diskutil in OS X shows the drive as "Not Bootable", but it says the same for the Lexar. Anyone have any suggestions? Is this a problem with 5.0rc8a? My Lexar was made with the same process over a year ago.. and then upgraded (by just replace the 2 files required) - so could it be possible that there is something up with the boot records in this zip?? whiteatom
October 10, 201213 yr As I recall (Not an Apple user), the problem is that the Apple OS does not do a 'proper' FAT32 format. You need to try formatting using one of the other format options on the format page on your Apple or get to a Windows machine. Hope this helps...
October 10, 201213 yr unetbootin for mac and wiki instructions are unfortunately rubbish when it comes to mac, and i'm really surprised no one has rewritten them yet check this out: http://perpetual-notion.blogspot.com/2011/08/unetbootin-on-mac-os-x.html using this method i managed to make one of my old pendrives bootable, but im quite confident i skipped unetbootin altogether and used "dd if=unraid.img of=/flash.drive" command (with some variables). after buing cruzer fit drive last week it didn't work, so i figured borrowing windows laptop from my neighbour will be easier and faster and it indeed was.
October 11, 201213 yr Author Ok.. that is helpful - thanks. I'll update the wiki if this works. As soon as my parity check finishes (about an hour), I'll try booting of this SanDisk again. whiteatom
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