July 18, 20169 yr So I am having issues trying to get my usb to boot and install. Little background, I bought some hardware: asus x99-a /usb3.1 i7-5820 4x4gb ddr4 2400 ripjawV 2x4tb nas drives a nvidia gpu 600series temp til i can get it installed So i originally was gonna do freenas but after purchasing the setup i realized non-ecc was a zfs no no. I had already done the basic install and started making the datasets when i found out so i deleted the volume having nothing really to lose yet when i decided to try out unraid. I formatted my sandisk 16gb thumb drive with the lastest stable. tried to get it to boot and nothing it went to a issue with trying to boot off a nas drive. So after trying to get the boot order situated I realized it wasn't wrong. (*something to not the usb mouse no longer works in the bios since my initial setup and putting the gpu back in to re setup the system.) So i loaded up a win7 disk deleted the partitions in ase that was a issue and went back to try again ..nothing. So i eliminated all the other boot options from all angles in bios and i can get it to basically have a cursor that blinks trying to boot and then it reverts back to the bios. I used the direct boot from inside the bios and it sits with the blinking cursor. I've played with the usb settings, if used a different thumbdrive, i've used different ports, and even tried reformatting the drives with a new dl and tried using the beta release. All to no avail. Not sure if it's a bios setup, the major difference since uninstalling freenas was enabling the virtulization in bios. Is there a work around, thorughs. etc..? Sleepless and confused
July 18, 20169 yr Author Yes, i did a proper makeboot formatting the drive, naming it UNRAID, and using the makeboot.bat as admin. I did this for both the latest stable and the latest beta as mentioned above. Got the press once part twice just like the videos.
July 18, 20169 yr Author Got it booted, i flashed my bios, and set set the boot on both locatios both boot order and priority to the non uefi version of my usb and set the boot device settings to legacy only. Now i am having issues trying to mount my drives...lol. It will all be worth it later.
July 18, 20169 yr Community Expert Got it booted, i flashed my bios, and set set the boot on both locatios both boot order and priority to the non uefi version of my usb and set the boot device settings to legacy only. Now i am having issues trying to mount my drives...lol. It will all be worth it later. What do you mean "mount my drives". You must let unRAID format any disks it will use in the array, and then it will mount them automatically when it starts. If you want to mount a disk from another system install the Unassigned Devices plugin, or install the Community Applications plugin then use it to install the Unassigned Devices plugin.
July 18, 20169 yr Author I go in assign my 2 disks i'm not using parity yet though. They say unmountable so i go to the bottom start a format on them and it starts it goes for a bit and stops and they are still showing unmountable. I've restarted the array, rebooted the server. I'm sure i'm just overlooking something..i hope. Brand new HGST's The funny thing is they are green lit with the array up but it says unmountable on both..hmm Should i try creating a share see if that does anything? Update: Creating a share after hitting done, the share is automatically deleted.
July 18, 20169 yr Author If it helps they were new then made into zfs disks, then formatted using a win 7 dvd. Then after i got unraid started i tried to add to array.
July 18, 20169 yr If it helps they were new then made into zfs disks, then formatted using a win 7 dvd. Then after i got unraid started i tried to add to array. Click on each disk on the main tab, and choose 'xfs' instead of 'auto' for the file system type. Then reboot. If it didn't solve the problem, format them again and see what happens
July 18, 20169 yr If it helps they were new then made into zfs disks, then formatted using a win 7 dvd. Then after i got unraid started i tried to add to array. All the old partition information is probably confusing the auto mount logic in unraid. Squid's solution of changing to xfs instead of auto should allow them to be formatted to xfs successfully.
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