May 22, 20188 yr Hi all I'm on a trial but cant get the GUI or the Terminal to work directly from the machine, but I can access the WebGUI just getting the flashing cursor I have read that this may due to SEABIOS - not in my case any other ideas ?
May 22, 20188 yr 1 hour ago, bwainhouse said: I'm on a trial but cant get the GUI or the Terminal to work directly from the machine, but I can access the WebGUI This seems to contradict itself - you can't get the GUI to work but you can access the GUI. Are you having difficulty accessing the unRAID GUI or are you, since you mention SEABIOS, talking about a VM. It really isn't clear what the problem is.
May 22, 20188 yr Author sorry for not being clear I wish to access the UNRAID GUI directly from the physical server However, at the moment I can only remotely access the WebGUI from an external machine I have configured boot to even the console is not accessible directly from the hardware only a flashing cursor The flash drive is is UEFI mode and is set to boot in unRAID OS GUI Mode as default: default menu.c32 menu title Lime Technology, Inc. prompt 0 timeout 50 label unRAID OS kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot label unRAID OS GUI Mode menu default kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui label unRAID OS Safe Mode (no plugins, no GUI) kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot unraidsafemode label unRAID OS GUI Safe Mode (no plugins) kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui unraidsafemode label Memtest86+ kernel /memtest
May 22, 20188 yr That's much easier to understand. Thank you. Do you have a keyboard connected to your server? When I tried UEFI boot it did the same thing - flashing cursor, waiting for a keyboard. Booting in legacy mode worked fine without a keyboard. So, I had three choices: Stay with legacy mode booting; Use UEFI boot but keep a keyboard plugged in; Use UEFI boot and plug in a wireless keyboard dongle (but not a Bluetooth one). The wireless keyboard dongle looks like a USB keyboard to the computer even if the actual keyboard is switched off.
May 22, 20188 yr Community Expert 5 minutes ago, John_M said: That's much easier to understand. No it isn't. If it isn't booting then obviously he couldn't... 22 minutes ago, bwainhouse said: ...remotely access the WebGUI from an external machine Are there other display ports you could try?
May 22, 20188 yr Author Worked using Wireless Keyboard..........thanks John So my next question is why and how to overcome this ?
May 22, 20188 yr 6 minutes ago, trurl said: No it isn't. If it isn't booting then obviously he couldn't... 28 minutes ago, bwainhouse said: ...remotely access the WebGUI from an external machine I got the impression that it was working fine with legacy boot to normal non-GUI mode with access from an external browser but the problems began when the OP changed to UEFI boot and GUI mode. He didn't actually say that he made both changes at the same time but it seems I guessed right. It was the flashing cursor that made me think.
May 22, 20188 yr 8 minutes ago, bwainhouse said: So my next question is why and how to overcome this ? I don't know why, but I've already suggested three ways to make it work. Choose the one that suits you best. UEFI is different from legacy. Presumably there's code that checks for a keyboard. Ancient BIOSes used to test for a keyboard too and if there wasn't one present would output the message "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue." ?
February 25, 20197 yr I am having this problem too. The keyboard is fine and switching to legacy is not acceptable as Unraid then boots in 1024x768. Any suggestions, I think this is a bug related to Unraid UEFI support.
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