DSandyGuy Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Hey all, I'm at a loss - I've been trying for 2 days now to install and try out UNRAID on my Lenovo Thinkserver TS140, but cannot get it to boot from my flash drive. Any help will be greatly appreciated! I've done all of the following: -Set BIOS to legacy only mode -Made sure Secure Boot was disabled -Disabled all boot devices except the "USB KEY" which is the flash drive -Set a single USB port to "Debug Mode" which says places it in USB 2.0 mode -Tried all the above with a 32GB USB 3 flash drive, made from the flash disk creator utility (and after failure, created manually) -Tried all the above with a 16GB USB 2 flash drive, made from the flash disk creator utility (and after failure, created manually) Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 How exactly does it fail? Can you take a photo of the monitor screen? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Does the system boot off USB if you load other USB bootable software to the flash drives? Do the unraid prepared USB sticks boot properly in other systems? Quote Link to comment
DSandyGuy Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 Thank you guys so much for the help. Both flash drives do boot on my other machines, just not the TS140. Below is a link to an album that has the relevant BIOS settings, along with the failure boot message. https://imgur.com/a/24b7WeB Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 15 hours ago, DSandyGuy said: -Set BIOS to legacy only mode But did you also try UEFI boot? In addition to enabling this in your bios, you need to check 'EFI boot' checkbox on USB Flash Creator tool, or just rename the folder 'EFI-' to 'EFI' (that is, remove the trailing dash character). Quote Link to comment
DSandyGuy Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 24 minutes ago, limetech said: But did you also try UEFI boot? In addition to enabling this in your bios, you need to check 'EFI boot' checkbox on USB Flash Creator tool, or just rename the folder 'EFI-' to 'EFI' (that is, remove the trailing dash character). Yes sir, I did try remaking the flash drive with that checkbox enabled, and I also set the BIOS to try legacy first and if legacy fails, try EFI. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 2 minutes ago, DSandyGuy said: Yes sir, I did try remaking the flash drive with that checkbox enabled, and I also set the BIOS to try legacy first and if legacy fails, try EFI. Is there a bios option, "EFI boot only"? Quote Link to comment
DSandyGuy Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 1 minute ago, limetech said: Is there a bios option, "EFI boot only"? You sir are a genius! That worked! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Are there any limitations with booting via UEFI versus legacy? Everything I read pointed to always wanting to use legacy. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 2 minutes ago, DSandyGuy said: Are there any limitations with booting via UEFI versus legacy? Everything I read pointed to always wanting to use legacy. Sometimes there are issues with GPU passthrough using UEFI vs. Legacy: But this is highly-dependent on the hardware. For some people GPU passthrough only works when booting via UEFI. The source issue is buggy bios. Quote Link to comment
DSandyGuy Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 Just now, limetech said: Sometimes there are issues with GPU passthrough using UEFI vs. Legacy: But this is highly-dependent on the hardware. For some people GPU passthrough only works when booting via UEFI. The source issue is buggy bios. Regardless, thank you so much for your help! Now I can get to work setting my server up with this awesome OS. I'm so excited! Quote Link to comment
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