January 25, 20179 yr My newly built unRAID server uses the above mentioned mobo. When you go into the BIOS/UEFI screen by pressing the DEL key upon boot there is a Boot option when you press F8 from the initial BIOS screen. When I press F8 and go into this menu it shows one or more hard drives plus "UEFI-Sony USB" and "Sony-USB" When I select Sony-USB it boots fine. The problem is when I go into Advanced BIOS mode and try to set the Boot order. The non-UEFI USB drive does not show up, I only get the UEFI-USB and the hard drives. So I always have to be in front of the machine to get it to reboot back into unRAID. Does anyone have a solution for this? I have tried changing a few settings for the USB but no luck so far. My next step will be to try to update the BIOS. I have never had this issue before as I never had to boot into USB rather than on a one-off basis for doing OS installs.
January 25, 20179 yr Community Expert On the bios boot page click on hard disk / hard drive list, set the flash drive as first.
January 25, 20179 yr Check if you can simply disable UEFI booting. I tend to do that on my unRAID servers to reduce confusion and only have the USB stick listed once.
January 25, 20179 yr Author Thanks guys I will try this. @johnnie For the boot priority order list it only lists the hard drives plus the UEFI USB stick, not the non-UEFI USB stick. That is one of the issues as if will not boot off of the UEFI USB stick. There is a screen where you can sort of drag and drop the drives around but I don't think the USB stick is on that screen.
January 25, 20179 yr Community Expert @johnnie For the boot priority order list it only lists the hard drives plus the UEFI USB stick, not the non-UEFI USB stick. That is one of the issues as if will not boot off of the UEFI USB stick. Not boot priority, hdd priority.
January 25, 20179 yr Author Thanks, that is what I had to do although my screen looks slightly differently. I moved the USB device up to the top of Hard Drive BBS Priorities and then I was able to select it as Boot Option #1. p.s To me BBS means Bulletin Board Service which was kind of the closest thing to the internet in the days of dial up modems in the early 1990s.
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