First Boot (SOLVED)

[Joshscanon]

I'm attempting to boot uNraid for the first time. I followed the basic setup instructions but all I get is a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner and nothing else. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Squid]

Make sure that the flash drive is set to be the first boot device in the BIOS

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[Joshscanon]

I have done this and disabled all other boot drives. 

 

Only flashing cursor.

[Hoopster]

36 minutes ago, Joshscanon said:

I have done this and disabled all other boot drives. 

 

Only flashing cursor.

Some things to try:

 

1. Did you run make_bootable.bat on the flash drive?

 

2. If your board has a USB 2.0 port try that.  Often 2.0 works better than 3.0 on certain boards.

 

3. Try booting UEFI instead of legacy BIOS.  To do this, rename the EFI- folder on the flash drive to EFI (remove the trailing '-'_

[Joshscanon]

1. Yes I ran the make bootable

2. I have it in a usb 2.0 port and disabled usb 3.0

3. I just deleted the - and no change still black screen with flashing cursor

 

Do you think it matters that I'm running a celeron g4400 processor?

[Hoopster]

21 minutes ago, Joshscanon said:

Do you think it matters that I'm running a celeron g4400 processor?

I doubt it.  unRAID is pretty much hardware agnostic, especially when it comes to CPUs.

 

Any chance the USB flash drive is bad? 

 

Did you use the USB Creator tool to prepare the flash drive or did you do it manually?

 

There have been some cases of a flash drive prepared with the USB Creator tool not working properly.

 

Not that it should matter in trying to boot, but, are you just trying to boot an unRAID trial or have you already licensed your flash drive?

[Joshscanon]

Worst comes to worst I'll swap in my i5 7500

 

I've tried it with the auto boot maker and doing it manually and got the same effect both times.

 

I'll try a different usb drive

 

I'm trying to boot the trial. I'm buying a full copy as soon as it boots because the website said that was the best way.

[bonienl]

Also make sure the USB device is labelled UNRAID (in all capitals)

[Joshscanon]

Okay

[Joshscanon]

I have tried a different ubs drive with variations on quick boot and keyboard support. But still no boot 

[Joshscanon]

Ok I changed a setting in the USB configuration. Changing the usb drive from forced fdd to hard drive. 

Now it boots

Trouble is whether I choose the headless or the gui it still askes me for a login and password.

Where do I make these?

.

[bonienl]

By default username is 'root' and password is empty