I tried upgrading to Beta 4 on a new flash drive; the first time I had a slight problem when it booted - for some reason the BIOS (on my starter kit motherboard) decided the server was meant to boot from one of the hard disks. That was easily corrected, as the BIOS recognised the new flash (Sandisk Cruzer), and I set it to do a USB boot from that device. However, while it booted fine, I couldn't see any of the drives from the browser.

 

I assumed that I had messed up something in the file transfers from my original unRaid flash, so I tried to install Beta 4 again. But when I rebooted my server with the original flash, I got a message saying that I should insert the correct boot device. On looking through the BIOS, I found that the unRaid flash was not "seen" anywhere by the BIOS except as a hard disk (?). As I have all 12 drive slots filled with real hard disks, and the BIOS listed only 12 drives, this also meant that one hard disk was not seen by the BIOS.

 

I've checked the BIOS settings, tried putting the (original) flash into other USB slots (all at the back, so they're the motherboard USB slots), but I continue to get the same error message. I'm now in the less-than-ideal situation of either Beta-4 with no drives or no unRaid at all  .

 

Any suggestions?

Boot beta4 again, then go to the Devices page of the Management Utility and assign your hard drives.

 

For the IDE starter set your probably want devices in this order:

 

parity .. /dev/hda
disk1 .. /dev/hdb
disk2 .. /dev/hdc
disk3 .. /dev/hdd
disk4 .. /dev/hdi
disk5 .. /dev/hdj
disk6 .. /dev/hdk
disk7 .. /dev/hdl
disk8 .. /dev/hde
disk9 .. /dev/hdf
disk10 .. /dev/hdg
disk11 .. /dev/hdh

 

 

Thanks for the prompt reply; I should have read the documentation more carefully. I'm still slightly concerned that the original unRaid flash can't boot, but I have faith in the Betas, so it's not a huge problem.

 

So after assigning the drives I should go back to the main page and hit "Start"? I hope so, since that's what I've done  .  Parity sync running at 12,472 KB/sec; another 507 minutes to go 

Yep, interesting anomoly with the D865GLCLK that it lists up to 12 boot devices max.  If you want to boot the original Lime flash, then you could temporily power off one of your hard drives, boot into the bios, select the Flash as the boot device, power down, turn the disk back on, and next reboot you should be good to go.