Hi

Anyone ever tried running unRaid (via Boot Camp I guess?) on an Intel Mac Pro tower? Room for 6 drives in there and very quiet/solid.

Looking for advice before I try

Thanks

I haven't tried it but I'd worry about PSU failure as sourcing a replacement may prove difficult or expensive.

 

Sent via a phone. Sorry for any typos.

 

 

If it works, I doubt you'd need Boot Camp -- UnRAID boots to it's own OS, not to a Windows environment.

I do not, however, know if the Mac hardware (e.g. NIC and disk controller) is supported by UnRAID.

 

Simple enough to try ... just create the USB flash drive;  then boot to USB.

 

 

Tried booting from a memory stick - but no joy - not even seen as startup potential.

Mac chasis does not have bios - it is EFI - so probably not surprising.

Boot camp allows bios type startup I think. Graphics cards are usually standard nVidia.

Not to sure about NIC/Disk Controller - but if I got that far I'd be very pleased!

 

PS - just had a horrible sinking feeling that all this is in the wrong forum - apologies!

Only in the "wrong" forum in that I doubt there are many "Mac folks" here (I'm certainly not).

 

But it's the right place for UnRAID questions.

 

Since your system doesn't allow booting from a USB stick, I doubt you can run UnRAID at all.    But it certainly wouldn't hurt to try it using Boot Camp -- although if that virtualizes it, you'll almost certainly NOT be able to boot a useable version of UnRAID.  [Without hardware pass-through, performance will be very poor even if it boots).

 

I think it's a cool idea. It would be interesting to see this happen.

If there is a floppy drive you can use plop. If there is a CDROM you can possibly make an ISO Linux Boot CD.

I wouldn't worry about the power supply. I would use it till the machine died, then move the drives to a newer environment.

In order to allow booting from USB you need to install an EFI bootloader or EFI manager). rEFInd is just the ticket, or it's predecessor rEFIt. It will present you with a system picker when you reboot your Mac. I never had great luck getting it to run guest OSes (exception below) off of CD/DVD, and didn't try USB, however. YMMV. I do use it to boot between OS X (a couple of versions) and Windows (installed with Boot Camp), and it did work with Mint Linux 14.1 Live CD.