Joshscanon Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited December 28, 2018 by Joshscanon Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Make sure that the flash drive is set to be the first boot device in the BIOSSent via telekinesis 1 Quote Link to comment
Joshscanon Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 I have done this and disabled all other boot drives. Only flashing cursor. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 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 '-'_ Quote Link to comment
Joshscanon Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 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? Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 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? Quote Link to comment
Joshscanon Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Also make sure the USB device is labelled UNRAID (in all capitals) Quote Link to comment
Joshscanon Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 I have tried a different ubs drive with variations on quick boot and keyboard support. But still no boot Quote Link to comment
Joshscanon Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 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? . Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 By default username is 'root' and password is empty Quote Link to comment
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