March 24, 201313 yr Hello, I would like to install a new unRaid server but my motherboard MSI MS-9121 don't have the possibility to start from the USB stick. Can I install the system on a normal raid IDE HD? How do I initialize the IDE HD with the unRaid system? Thank's. Flavio.
March 24, 201313 yr You may boot from an HDD, but you need a FAT32 partition with UNRAID label and syslinux installed on it... maybe you can have such partition on an hdd you may also use as cache disk, as from what I did read UNRAID will only use 1st partition for cache, but you will need to create such reiserfs partition manually as well... I did never tried to do it but if you search on forum you will find info on how to do it.
March 24, 201313 yr You may boot from an HDD, but you need a FAT32 partition with UNRAID label and syslinux installed on it... maybe you can have such partition on an hdd you may also use as cache disk, as from what I did read UNRAID will only use 1st partition for cache, but you will need to create such reiserfs partition manually as well... I did never tried to do it but if you search on forum you will find info on how to do it. Close... but not entirely correct. You can boot from anything. (kicker floppy, compact-flash card in IDE adapter, hard disk, etc) It need not be labeled anything special. It must be something your BIOS can see and be marked as bootable when configured. I used a CF card in one of these on an old MB I used at one time: http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-CF-IDE-A-Connects-3-5-Inch-Interface/dp/B000TMDE6G/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1364131265&sr=8-4&keywords=cf+ide+adapter In the boot process the disk volume labeled as UNRAID will be mounted at /boot and unRAID expects to find its configuration files there. That disk volume need not be on any special disk. If you wish to run more than the free version of unRAID you must have an attached USB flash drive labeled as "UNRAID" loaded with the unRAID software. It will be mounted at /boot. (even if you do not actually boot from it) It's GUID will be matched against your license key to unlock the additional drive slots and security features. See here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Best_of_the_Forums#USB_Boot_Issues
March 24, 201313 yr For the record, I used to boot my unRAID server via PXE boot. (Network boot). Granted this is for more advanced users, just noting that it's possible. It's also possible to boot from a CD if you make an ISOLINUX CD. I did it a few years back with success. Unfortunately, I cannot recreate the CD since my servers are gone. Point is, you can boot from anything that is considered bootable. It will just take some work to get there. I would suggest reviewing the forum for a PLOP floppy. I.E. If you still have a floppy drive and floppy disks around. You will still need a USB stick labeled as UNRAID as Joe L said. Since that motherboard has IDE ports, you could make an IDE drive bootable with FAT32 and just use that. If you plan to use it for the cache drive, there are discussions about putting multiple partitions on the cache drive to enable it's use as a cache, swap and boot drive.
March 24, 201313 yr I did refer about partition label for the case we don't want to use an usb flash at all (I did tried that before to run unraid on vmware for testing), but surely it would only work with free version as Joe said... Anyway, thinking a bit more, even with free version.. having unraid using usb flash to store configs, etc is probably more reliable really
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