Hello All,

 

Here's a great little app that allows you to 'burn' an iso image to a usb stick to make it bootable:

 

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

 

I used it a few days ago to install XBMC Live to my media server, and just found out I need to use it again for my unRaid box. Turns out when I opened my external hd case to pillage the drives for my unRaid box, the 2 1GB drives I had in it that I thought were WD Blacks, turned out to be Seagate ST310s with the bad firmware .

 

The patch from Seagate needs to be burned to a cd and run at boot time, so I thought of this little app again. Still pre-clearing one of the Seagates, so haven't run it yet, but the iso mounted fine on the usb stick, so hopefully it will boot without conflict with the existing usb stick.

 

If it does conflict, would it be a problem to remove the unRaid usb key for the firmware upgrade, the put it back in when complete?

 

Thanks for any advice!

 

 

So I was looking to procrastinate on doing some other work and figured I'd give this a whirl...

 

Unfortunately, though it boots up without problem (I *did* have to remove my unRaid Stick), the image would not load . I only had a few minutes to spare so couldn't delve too deeply, but looks like it's not be a solution for no cd drive. I guess I'll be pulling them out and flashing them on the windows machine. Sigh.

 

 

There is is a simple solution to boot that ISO, just load it from the existing unRAID flash drive.

- Put the ISO on the flash drive

- Modify your menu so it includes the ISO

- Boot from USB and select the new option

(just like the memtest option that is already in there)

 

See:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/booting-of-raw-iso-from-grublilo-though-preferably-grub-367901/

 

 

I have got this to work with a bunch of vendor check tools (WD has it's 'Data Lifeguard Diagnostic' disk, Seatools has its 'SeaTools', etc.) and that can be certainly handy RMA-ing drives (they want the error codes)

I have got this to work with a bunch of vendor check tools (WD has it's 'Data Lifeguard Diagnostic' disk, Seatools has its 'SeaTools', etc.)

 

Many of those 'vendor check tools' tell you to disconnect all disks from the motherboard except the disk you'll be checking.

I once booted a laptop off a USB key with such a 'vendor check tool' and it made a mess of the MBRs on my disks.

 

 

Doh! Too late! Just saw this post this morning, and I pulled the drives last night and flashed them from my Windows box!!

 

Thanks anyways!

 

... Though frankly, as a complete and utter Linux newb, I'm a bit nervous to try something that I could  mess up and kill my unRaid