Server is up and running and works well, with a couple of exceptions.

 

USB boot is very slow - 6-8 mins to load unraid.

 

This seems to relate to the bios bootloader, I have tried several USB boot devices and they are all slow.

 

Found PLoP, configured it into syslinux.cfg, using the following

plpcfgbt stm=hidden cnt=on cntval=1 dbt=usb plpbt.bin

Added a Label into syslinux.cfg

Now boot times are much better (3x faster).

 

My problem is that menu.c32 only allows one default option and I cant see how-to chain two kernel commands. 

For now I have unRaid as the default so for unattended restarts the box will boot albeit slowly.

 

Anyone know how-to add plpbt to the Unraid entry or have two default options or chain two syslinux.cfg files?

 

Hi Kaygee,

 

I was able to get plop working with Unraid by installing Plop directly to my unraid cache disk (instead of using syslinux).  You can't alter the default settings on the syslinux version but you can alter the settings of plop if it's installed on a hard drive.  I set plop to boot my usb key after a 10 second countdown.  All you have to do is set your bios to boot from the cache disk > it will then load plop > which will then load unraid.  I posted steps here too:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4379.0

Server is up and running and works well, with a couple of exceptions.

 

USB boot is very slow - 6-8 mins to load unraid.

 

This seems to relate to the bios bootloader, I have tried several USB boot devices and they are all slow.

 

Found PLoP, configured it into syslinux.cfg, using the following

plpcfgbt stm=hidden cnt=on cntval=1 dbt=usb plpbt.bin

Added a Label into syslinux.cfg

Now boot times are much better (3x faster).

 

My problem is that menu.c32 only allows one default option and I cant see how-to chain two kernel commands. 

For now I have unRaid as the default so for unattended restarts the box will boot albeit slowly.

 

Anyone know how-to add plpbt to the Unraid entry or have two default options or chain two syslinux.cfg files?

 

 

Hi,

 

same problem for me.

 

Did you find a different solution than using an additional hard drive?