June 7, 201610 yr Shut the setup down, unplugged the usb, but neither linux nor windows (nor the server for that matter) refuse to mount the usb: dmesg on mount: [ 2650.677672] FAT-fs (sdd1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! [ 2650.678251] FAT-fs (sdd1): bogus number of reserved sectors [ 2650.678255] FAT-fs (sdd1): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem $ sudo strings /dev/sdd1: RRaA rrAa SYSLINUX NO NAME FAT32 PPPP u%8M t f=!GPTu +fRfP F}+f`f Boot error RRaA rrAa UNRAID BZIMAGE BZROOT BZROOT~1 CHANGES TXT CONFIG LICENSE TXT MAKE_B~1BAT MAKE_B~1 MEMTEST SYSLINUX LDLINUX SYS' LDLINUX C32' SYSLOG TXT SYSTEM~1 FSCK0000REC FSCK0001REC FSCK0002REC FSCK0003REC FSCK0004REC FSCK0005REC Use a boot loader. Remove disk and press any key to reboot... fHdrS |$D! fVfSf \$ f1 4f[f^f No setup signature found... <and so on> 1) How screwed am I? 2) Any way to install unraid onto hdd?
June 7, 201610 yr 1) Not very. Your data should be OK but you might have to format your flash and do a fresh install if you don't have a backup of it. 2) No.
June 8, 201610 yr Author Whoever finds themselves in the same problem - got it sorted out by rebuilding boot sector with utility called testdisk. (note the usb's filesystem was fat32 as per limetech's recommendation)
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