Hi

 

I'm new to UnRaid, earlier used Synlogy system.

 

I used all the steps and made my bootable USB Drive but when I inserted the said drive into my system which I am planning to use as NAS, it got stuck at a Cursor blinking continuously and no movement further.

 

Tried enabling/disable things as advised but nothing worked. Result remain same and because of this unable to install.

 

My hardware configuration is :

 

Motherboard : Asus Z97-Deluxe

Processor : Intel Corer i7/4700k

RAM : 32 Gb

HDDs : 2tb x 2, 3tb x 2

Onboard Graphics

 

Hyperthreading - enable

VT-D - Enabled

 

BIOS : UEFI Mode

 

Also tried with Bios setting to CSM and legacy but no change in results.

Edited June 12, 20179 yr by Rakesh Gupta

To boot from USB, you have to prepare the USB correctly and set up the BIOS to boot from it properly. One or the other is not done.

 

How big is your USB? Must be 16G or less.

I following all the steps mentioned in the document but as there was no mention of maximum size of USB Drive, hence I opted for 32 Gb.

 

Will change to 4 Gb to try.

 

Regards

 

Rakesh

Make sure that the flash drive is formatted with FAT32. ( A lot of larger flash drives are formatted with NTFS...)

3 hours ago, bjp999 said:

To boot from USB, you have to prepare the USB correctly and set up the BIOS to boot from it properly. One or the other is not done.

 

How big is your USB? Must be 16G or less.

 

4 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

 

 

32G with ony 474M used. Shoot me. I know there is an upper limit and thought it was 16G. I have had trouble with too large a USB stick (granted was a while back), and 4G is a good size IMO.

3 minutes ago, bjp999 said:

 

32G with ony 474M used. Shoot me. I know there is an upper limit and thought it was 16G. I have had trouble with too large a USB stick (granted was a while back), and 4G is a good size IMO.

I'm not sure it's possible to properly prep a stick larger than 16GB without 3rd party tools with modern versions of windows, so your rule of thumb is still valid.

28 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

I'm not sure it's possible to properly prep a stick larger than 16GB without 3rd party tools with modern versions of windows, so your rule of thumb is still valid.

Up to 32G, the default is FAT32.  Past 32G and you require something like MiniTool Partition wizard to reformat to FAT32

I'm still thinking the smaller stick should be tried if the 32GB is formatted with FAT32 and he is having problems.

 

It has gotten better with the current generation of motherboards, but historically getting a USB stick to boot has been tricky. Often using a smaller USB has resolved such issues.

 

Of course if it is something basic like not using FAT32, the larger stick might work fine. But I am assuming he followed the instructions.

Formatting the USB drive is so easy a step to skip and I seem to recall that it has happened recently to someone else.  (The MB BIOS recognized NTFS but the bootloader that unRAID uses didn't...)   FAT32 use to be the norm for USB flash drives as the format is supported by virtually every major OS.  But as the drives get larger, FAT32 does have 4GB file size limit and that apparently has led some manufacturers to reconsider what file system to install--- Users complaining that they get an error when trying to store a 5GB file on a 128GB flash drive...