I'm trying to replace my flash drive that I believe is the source of some problems I'm currently dealing with.  I have a new flash drive and I've followed these steps:

http://lime-technology.com/unraid-server-installation/

I followed those steps through step 5 (win8) and then I copied the contents of my old flash drive to the new flash drive overwriting the files.  When I try to boot from the new flash drive I get this error:

SYSLINUX 4.03 2010-10-22 CHS Copyright....
menu.c32: not a COM32R image
boot:

and it repeats that message.  What are the proper steps for replacing a flash drive?

 

Some important notes:

• I'm currently running the free version of 5.0.5
  
• My old flash drive does not have the "make_bootable" file (possibly because I originally upgraded from v4.7 before that so it's been in use for a looooong time).
  
• Therefore, I needed to download a new zip file that has the "make_bootable" file.  I downloaded the zip file for 5.0.6 because that is the only one offered on the website.
  
• I also tried to delete all of the contents of the new flash drive (after performing steps 1-5) and then copying the contents from my old flash drive, but I got the same result
  
• Based on what I've read in the forums I'm thinking my problem has something to do with the mismatch of 5.0.5 and 5.0.6 files, but I'm not sure what to do.
  

Thanks.

I may have figured out the proper procedure.  I copied the contents of the 5.0.6 server files to my new flash drive, then I copied over just the "config" and "extra" folders from my old hard drive.  THEN I run the "make_bootable" program.  The trick seems to be that you cannot make any changes to the flash drive (such as copying old files and overwriting existing files) after running the make_bootable program.

 

My server is running, but I think I need to replace all of my internal hardware... I built this in 2010 and I think I'm dealing with a larger issue than just the flash drive.  Some issues that starting to recognize very recently:

*keyboard doesn't work anymore (but it does work in other computers)

*network card flashes red instead of green, even though I can still transfer at high rates (80 MB/s).

*still have issues booting where it stalls at certain points

...  The trick seems to be that you cannot make any changes to the flash drive (such as copying old files and overwriting existing files) after running the make_bootable program...

That can't really be the answer since anything you set in the webUI gets written to the flash drive, so there are plenty of writes to flash after make_bootable just for normal operations and it remains bootable. And I'm pretty sure copying your config after make_bootable is the way most people do it.

 

Not sure what your problem was. Glad you got it working though.