RxLord Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Looking for help, new to UNRAID. I have tried 3 usb drives: 16gb - Sandisk Cruzer Glide 64gb - Sandisk cruzer ultra fit 32gb - PNY with no luck booting from the flash drive. I have downloaded both Unraid USB Creator and Unraid server 6.5.2 and ran as administrator. Tried on both my server and laptop and won't boot. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment
trurl Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Could you be more specific about the results you're getting? Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 9, 2018 Author Share Posted September 9, 2018 With my server, it goes thru the bios then a blinking cursor shows up. On my laptop, I remove my hard drive and place the usb stick in and the system says no bootable hard drive. It’s like the unraid software isn’t on the usb drive. Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Try to find a "select bootable device" list of some flavor in the BIOS, preferably as a hotkey option on boot, and see you can select the stick there. Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Motherboard is an American Megatrends. Core Version 4.6.4.1. Under my Boot Option Priorities my USB stick shows under the Boot Option #1. Can someone please screenshot what the base folder directory is. Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 https://wiki.unraid.net/Files_on_v6_boot_drive 1 hour ago, RxLord said: Can someone please screenshot what the base folder directory is. Not exactly a screenshot, better because it has descriptions. Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Thanks for the link. So when I run the Unraid Flash Creator with Version 6.5.3. This is what I get: Config EFI syslinux bzfirmware bzimage bzmodules bzroot bzroot-gui changes license make_bootable make_bootable_linux make_bootable_mac memtest Link to comment
trurl Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 11 minutes ago, RxLord said: Thanks for the link. So when I run the Unraid Flash Creator with Version 6.5.3. This is what I get: Config EFI syslinux bzfirmware bzimage bzmodules bzroot bzroot-gui changes license make_bootable make_bootable_linux make_bootable_mac memtest That agrees with the contents of the zip file I just downloaded. That wiki isn't completely up-to-date. What exactly are you trying to determine from the list? 6 hours ago, RxLord said: I have downloaded both Unraid USB Creator and Unraid server 6.5.2 and ran as administrator. Have you tried the manual installation here? https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Getting_Started#Manual_Method_.28Legacy.29 Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Yes have tried both ways with no luck. Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Is there an archive to older versions? Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 I suspect your issue is the partitioning / format of the USB stick. Try using a more powerful formatting tool like rufus, and set it to MBR boot with a label of UNRAID. After that is done, then use the USB creator tool or manual installation method. Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Try rufus and still no luck. Tried 2 different usb sticks and my laptop and server. I'm wondering if the sticks need to be usb 2.0? Link to comment
testdasi Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 1 hour ago, RxLord said: I'm wondering if the sticks need to be usb 2.0? unRAID itself doesn't require USB 2.0 but some weird and wonderful motherboards do to boot. I mean may be stating the obvious - did you run make_bootable.bat? I have seen a motherboard having weird issues booting from USB in UEFI so might want to try Legacy mode. Link to comment
trurl Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 19 hours ago, RxLord said: Looking for help, new to UNRAID. I have tried 3 usb drives: 16gb - Sandisk Cruzer Glide 64gb - Sandisk cruzer ultra fit 32gb - PNY with no luck booting from the flash drive. I have downloaded both Unraid USB Creator and Unraid server 6.5.2 and ran as administrator. Tried on both my server and laptop and won't boot. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If these were all USB3 flash drives, then that might be the issue, but what we more often see is motherboards that can't boot from a USB3 port. Have you tried other ports? Or they will boot from the USB3 port then lose connection and then unRAID won't be able to access it anymore. Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 I have run USB creator and copied the files over and ran make_bootable.bat. A dos window comes up with press any key to continue twice. Then exits out of the DOS program. Link to comment
trurl Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 1 hour ago, RxLord said: I have run USB creator and copied the files over and ran make_bootable.bat. A dos window comes up with press any key to continue twice. Then exits out of the DOS program. Is the a new attempt or are you just telling us what you already tried before? Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 I have attempt both way multiple times. I just picked up some usb 2.0 flash drives. Will see if they work. Link to comment
trurl Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Have you tried other USB ports? Preferably USB2. Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Yep. The motherboard only has usb 2.0. Link to comment
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