August 22, 20178 yr Hi, I'm totally new to this so please be patient with me. I put together my kinda budget Ryzen Server today and I'm now having issues getting the server to boot properly. I followed the steps at https://lime-technology.com/getting-started/ precisely. The flash drive is a 16GB SanDisk Fit drive, it's formatted to FAT32 with label UNRAID. I've tried both the manual way of downloading the latest zip, unpacking it onto the drive and running the make-bootable.bat as administrator (script said it succeeded), and the automated way using the tool. The UEFI is set to boot from the non-UEFI "version" of the flash drive (the UEFI version wouldn't boot). I select "unRAID Server OS", it starts up and then loops 30 seconds at "waiting for /dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID (will check for 30 sec)...", followed by a message that no drive was found and then proceeds to boot. When I then login as root and list /boot there's only a folder "config" which according to this thread https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/45911-cannot-reach-web-interface/ means I didn't prepare the drive properly. So, what am I missing here?
August 22, 20178 yr Try a different USB port? Try adjusting any USB enumeration options in BIOS (change usb 3, legacy enumeration, etc)?
August 22, 20178 yr Author 28 minutes ago, jonathanm said: Try a different USB port? Try adjusting any USB enumeration options in BIOS (change usb 3, legacy enumeration, etc)? I tried several ports, both USB3 and 2, I'm not sure what exactly those BIOS changes are, the only thing that sounds familiar is Enabling/Disabling USB Legacy support. I even tried another flash drive, exact same model, that one I can't even get to boot though. I did use both these drives for my FreeNAS build as boot drives, but I (at least think I) deleted all partitions on them and properly formatted them. Only thing in that regard that I can think of is trying with a completely different flash drive tomorrow...
August 22, 20178 yr Try booting the USB stick in another PC, it won't alter anything unless you assign a drive to a slot. DON'T do that unless the drive is blank, or you want to erase it. If it boots successfully, or gives the same error, at least you know a little more which end of the stick you need to attack. I suspect the USB stick partition / format is the issue.
August 23, 20178 yr Author 12 hours ago, jonathanm said: Try booting the USB stick in another PC, it won't alter anything unless you assign a drive to a slot. DON'T do that unless the drive is blank, or you want to erase it. If it boots successfully, or gives the same error, at least you know a little more which end of the stick you need to attack. I suspect the USB stick partition / format is the issue. Okay, turns out it's apparently those 2 flash drives that are the issue. I just used a different drive and now I can access everything... Guess I'll have to look into how to properly reset those 2 flash drives, because the whole reason I bought those is to use as boot drives for this kind of thing since they're supposedly very reliable. Do you per chance have a suggestion on how to format them properly? I went into diskpart and deleted all partitions on the drives and then created new simple volumes via the Windows Computer Management EDIT: I got a suggestion to use the "HP USB format" tool, and it looks like that actually worked since I can now boot properly from the SanDisk drive Edited August 23, 20178 yr by szernex
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