Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Unraid

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Unable to boot on USB flash drive!

Featured Replies

Hi,

 

My USB Flash Drive is a Kingston USB3 DataTraveler 100 G3 16Gig. I use this package unRAIDServer-6.0.1-x86_64.zip. Everything goes fine on creation of the bootable.  I try it couple times without sucess  :-[

  • Drive format fat32 OK
  • Drive name UNRAID ok
  • Run as administrator
  • ldlinux.sys file is present

 

Won't boot! Hope you can help me with it!

 

Thanks

  • Community Expert

Is your BIOS set to boot from it? What do you see on the monitor when you try to boot?

Have you checked your boot order in the BIOS?

 

Most UEFI Bios will give two options for booting from a usb stick -> UEFI and non UEFI.  Choose non UEFI

 

Or, is the system trying to boot and not succeeding?  Whats the error message?

  • Author

Yes my bios correctly set I'm able to boot on a  Live Linux

Whats the error message?  Or try a fresh USB stick that's never been set to be bootable

 

 

  • Author

My BIOS is not to UEFI

 

I reformat a couple my flash drive always same message

 

There is the error message

 

Missing operating system.

Boot failure

Press any key to continue

 

Thanks

I'm sure its something silly, but just at a loss. 

 

It certainly sounds like you ran make_bootable as an administrator.  The flash is labelled UNRAID, you've tried multiple sticks, and the system will boot a linux live stick no problems.

 

Not quite sure at the moment.  Maybe someone else has a thought.

  • Author

I will try tomorrow a other stick from my office an old and smaller one

  • Community Expert

My BIOS is not to UEFI

 

I reformat a couple my flash drive always same message

 

There is the error message

 

Missing operating system.

Boot failure

Press any key to continue

 

Thanks

those messages mean that either the make_bootable step did not run successfully (so the USB drive is not actually bootable), or you the system is not actually trying to boot off the USB stick.

 

There was mention earlier OS a syslinux.sys file.  Aon the standard unRAID SETUP the top level on the USB stick there should be a syslinux folder and all files related to syslinux should be inside this.  Just checking as if you have a different layout this might be the underlying issue.

  • Author

Hi,

 

Ok answer at your questions:

 

  • My pc is able to boot on USB because I got a live linux and I'm able to boot on it
  • Maybe the make_bootable script don't ran  correctly but no message indicate it
  • ldlinux.sys, ldlinux.c32 and the folder syslinux and I got the folder syslinux and files in it

 

Very weird problem! I'm a sysadmin for many years I don't  understand this one.

 

 

 

Does the USB stick boot on a different computer?

  • Author

No does boot on other computer!

 

I found an old  512Meg Flash Drive and it work!? I bought too Kingston USB3 DataTraveler 100 G3 16Gig (http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/dt100g3_us.pdf) any of it work. At my first try on old crappy 512 flash drive it work fine. Now why this Kingston USB flash drive won't work???

 

I want use my flash drive I bought for it!

 

Sooo weird!

 

 

Issue booting to USB3? What motherboard?

If you look at your motherboard specs it is USB2 and NOT USB3

 

that is why your old flash drive worked,  it is probably a usb2 stick.

 

again your motherboard DOES NOT support USB3

 

Some USB 3.0 Sticks dosnt work properly on USB 2.0 Ports - thats the reason!  ;)

  • Author

Yea,

 

I found the way to boot on my flash drive finally! I use Rufus to format it after strait forward the normal procedure

Here a screenshot (Sorry for frenchy dialog) what preset I use in Rufus.

Hope that can help someone else.

rufus.jpg.7a0f0e035cda0b1b86e71629ab71b497.jpg

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.