December 9, 200916 yr Folks: Running a GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H AM3 and having a heck of time getting a flash drive to boot. I have an existing unRaid flash that boots great on a Voyager flash drive. Tonight I have tried a PNY 2GB and a Patriot XT 4GB drive. I format them, run syslinux and then copy over unraid. Neither one will boot. I have also tried the HP format utility but no go. I had a VERY old 512 generic card laying around and I ran syslinux on it but the copy of unRaid to the flash drive failed at 58% percect. That being said, that flash card would boot and give me the lili (or grub not sure which) boot loader prompt. Any thoughts on why the other two cards won't boot?
December 9, 200916 yr Did you go into BIOS and set the new Flash drives as the primary boot device? In most cases, the BIOS sees every different flash device as a different drive, so each one must be explicitly set in the boot order.
December 9, 200916 yr Folks: Running a GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H AM3 and having a heck of time getting a flash drive to boot. I have an existing unRaid flash that boots great on a Voyager flash drive. Tonight I have tried a PNY 2GB and a Patriot XT 4GB drive. I format them, run syslinux and then copy over unraid. Neither one will boot. I have also tried the HP format utility but no go. I had a VERY old 512 generic card laying around and I ran syslinux on it but the copy of unRaid to the flash drive failed at 58% percect. That being said, that flash card would boot and give me the lili (or grub not sure which) boot loader prompt. Any thoughts on why the other two cards won't boot? Format must be FAT for many BIOS to boot from them, others will work with FAT32. Make sure you use the "-ma" option to syslinux, otherwise, the MBR will not be written, and the flash drive will not be marked as a bootable device. Joe L.
December 9, 200916 yr Author Thanks for the info... I was going by the readme is the zip file and that appears to not contain the -ma option http://www.lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=19
December 9, 200916 yr Thanks for the info... I was going by the readme is the zip file and that appears to not contain the -ma option http://www.lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=19 Yes, I reported that to Tom just last week when I discovered the release notice did not have the link to his CURRENT page that describes loading the flash drive. (He must have cut-and-pasted it from an earlier release notice that pointed to his original page) The current page is here: http://www.lime-technology.com/joomla/unraid-os and it does list the -ma option. Joe L.
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