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. 

Could you be more specific about the results you're getting? 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

 

 

 

 

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

Yes have tried both ways with no luck. 

 

Is there an archive to older versions?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

I have attempt both way multiple times. I just picked up some usb 2.0 flash drives. Will see if they work.

 

Have you tried other USB ports? Preferably USB2.

Yep. The motherboard only has usb 2.0.