Hi all,  I'm new to the board, and could really use some help.  I've been using an old 256M flash drive to boot my 3 disk unraid server.  This flash drive does not have a valid GUID, so I cannot use it to upgrade to a Plus Key.  I purchased a 2G SanDisk Micro Cruzer hoping to use it but it does not seem to work. 

 

How do you copy the contents of the old flash drive to the new one?  I thought it would be a simple process of making the new drive bootable and than just copying all the files over, but that does not seem to work.  When I try that, and reboot the server, it just hangs. 

 

Any help would be great.

 

Thanks

Hi all,  I'm new to the board, and could really use some help.  I've been using an old 256M flash drive to boot my 3 disk unraid server.  This flash drive does not have a valid GUID, so I cannot use it to upgrade to a Plus Key.  I purchased a 2G SanDisk Micro Cruzer hoping to use it but it does not seem to work. 

 

How do you copy the contents of the old flash drive to the new one?  I thought it would be a simple process of making the new drive bootable and than just copying all the files over, but that does not seem to work.  When I try that, and reboot the server, it just hangs. 

 

Any help would be great.

 

Thanks

Format the new flash drive, run syslinux -ma on it to make it bootable, label it as UNRAID, download, unzip, and copy the "distribution" files to it, copy the .key" file to it you got from lime-tech, copy the "config" folder to it from your old flash drive, safely eject it from the PC, plug it into your server, go to BIOS on the server to select it as the boot device.

 

did you label the new flash drive as UNRAID ?  Did you select it as the boot devlce ?  (most likely omissions)

 

Joe L.

Joe L.

 

Thanks.  I checked my bios again, and sure enough the USB port was set to the 4th boot option.  I assumed that the bios settings would be the same as it was with the old Flash drive, but I guess when it saw a new flash drive it reverted back to a default setting.  Anyway thanks for your help.