Cannot Boot to unRAID with HP Server

[Dynamiteboy]

I am having trouble booting into UnRAID via USB on my HP ProLiant DL360e Gen 8. I am using the internal USB port, secure boot is disabled, Boot from USB support is enabled. I verified the USB I created with the unRAID tool works by booting my laptop into unRAID with it, and it worked fine. Any ideas from HP server users?

[1812]

make sure legacy boot is on (assuming you have that option) and set to boot from usb first in the bios.

 

are you able to make it to a boot selection screen?

[Dynamiteboy]

3 hours ago, 1812 said:

make sure legacy boot is on (assuming you have that option) and set to boot from usb first in the bios.

 

are you able to make it to a boot selection screen?

 

Yes I can make it to a boot selection screen and internal USB is the first boot option, but when I boot to it nothing happens and it just goes to the next items on the boot order. 

[1812]

6 hours ago, Dynamiteboy said:

 

Yes I can make it to a boot selection screen and internal USB is the first boot option, but when I boot to it nothing happens and it just goes to the next items on the boot order. 

 

maybe the internal usb is faulty? that or something is not set right in your bios. 

[Dynamiteboy]

I tried on other USB ports, and sure it may be a bios setting but I do not know which one, virtualization, boot from USB and other such features are enabled.

[1812]

1 hour ago, Dynamiteboy said:

I tried on other USB ports, and sure it may be a bios setting but I do not know which one, virtualization, boot from USB and other such features are enabled.

 

You're going to have to fiddle with the settings then. I don't own a gen8 so I can't tell you the settings since the bios is a little bit different. 

[Dynamiteboy]

What type of server do you have? Some of the Bios options may be similar.

[1812]

1 hour ago, Dynamiteboy said:

What type of server do you have? Some of the Bios options may be similar.

 

120 g6

580 g7

[Dynamiteboy]

Any Bios Options in particular you had to set, or did it just sort of work "Out-of-box"?

[1812]

20 minutes ago, Dynamiteboy said:

Any Bios Options in particular you had to set, or did it just sort of work "Out-of-box"?

 

 

it was basically out of the box once I set usb as first boot device. 

 

try disabling all other devices that it could boot from (all sata and onboard raid and cd rom) and leave only the usb as available, to try an eliminate some of the possibilities. for the onboard raid, do that in pcie section. 

 

did you create a legacy usb or uefi? maybe redo the usb creation with the opposite (if the the gen8 supports it)

 

It may also be a flaky install. IIRC I've had a usb that one computer (non hp) would boot but another computer (non hp) wouldn't but should. After redoing the install, it works for some weird reason.

 

 

[metabyte]

Try this, worked for me.

 

Use the USB Creator from UNRAID, Choose, 'customize' and click "allow uefi boot."

 

After that, on the usb you just made, rename the "EFI" folder to "UEFI"

 

After that, go into your bios config. Disable legacy, but keep secure boot off. Be sure to disable all legacy sources.

 

I was able to get my HP bios to auto boot using this method. Hope the helps for anyone who encounters this in the future.