The UnRAID doing a reboot when the power went out. When it came back on the system started to boot up and gets to the where it is suppose to boot into the UnRAID software and says "no boot device found" So I rebooted to setup screen to see if the drive was there and it shows up in the list of hard drives for boot. It was set right to boot from the Thumbdrive but will not boot from that thumbdrive. Any ideas? I am freaking out that my thumbdrive got corrupted and if so can I just reformat it and transfer back all the information to the drive?

 

Thanks

If it shows as a hard drive then change the boot device to hard drive and first place in the list of hard drives. Works for me. 

CaptainSpalding,

 

  Yeah I tried that but the system lists all 5 drives and will not let me put it at that top. I tried changing it to boot "removable" first and then back to "hard drive" still no joy there. Not sure it would help reformating the thumbdrive after backing it all up on a temp directory and copying it back on once it is done if that will work.

As noted, you need to first set the first boot device to Hard Drive;  then move the flash drive to the #1 position in the list of hard drives (a different menu).

 

In most BIOS screens, you highlight the device, then use either a + or - key to move its relative position; although I've also seen some that used PageUp/PageDn to move it; and I'm sure there are other keys used in addition to those.  If it's showing the device in the list, there's got to be a key sequence to move it 

GaryCase,

 

  Yep tried that too but here is the strange part it would not let me move any of them in any order which I found to be odd. The thumbdrive is the last one out of five drives showing. It does say use +/- to move but none move. That is what is giving me so much trouble it was all right to begin with but when the power went out it dorked something up.

Reset your CMOS => either via a jumper on the motherboard, or by unplugging everything;  removing the CMOS battery (probably a CR2032) for a few minutes; then replace the battery; plug it back in; and see if that resolves the issue with not being able to assign the boot device.

 

Note that if the system's more than a couple years old, you may want to use a new CR2032 battery, just to be sure a low/dead battery isn't contributing to this issue.

 

GaryCase,

 

  Eureka! I did try all of that to begin with but the solve was removing all the SATA drive connects and then booting to CMOS. Once the thumb drive was in the number one position again shutdown and reattach SATA drives, it worked! Not sure why it would have gotten thrown out of order like it did, but problem solved!

 

Thank to all!

 

v/r,

 

Greg

Glad it's working -- not sure why the BIOS wouldn't let you change the relative positions of the boot devices;  but at least you've got it set correctly now 

Me either it was the craziness thing I have seen..