February 9, 20197 yr Hi Can I run UNRAID from USB that is in NTFS mode? Because I can only boot usb fom my motherboart if it is in NTFS mode. If I format usb in FAT32 my motherboard doen't see it.
February 9, 20197 yr Community Expert FAT32 typically is better supported than NTFS so it would be very unusual if this is true. What is your motherboard?
February 9, 20197 yr Author My motherboard is quite old and it is gigabyte ga-p35-ds3 Edited February 9, 20197 yr by gapy10
February 9, 20197 yr 17 minutes ago, gapy10 said: Because I can only boot usb fom my motherboart if it is in NTFS mode. Very surprising. One kicker with most BIOS's is that you do NOT set the first boot to be USB. Rather you set the first boot as Hard Drive, and select the USB stick from hard drive BBS priorities. But, you may have to play around also the older you get. I used to run a GA-P35-xxx and had no problems with it that I can recall.
February 9, 20197 yr Author Yes I do it like you discribed. But if usb is in FAR32 it doesn't show up under hard drives and If the usb is in NTFS it does show up under hard drives.
February 9, 20197 yr Author I tried usb fat32 and set in bios boot from usb-fdd, usb-zip, usb-cdrom, usb-hdd and it didn't work. It stops hire.
February 9, 20197 yr Author Now I realised when pc starts and checks sata ports the third line says it only supports hdd and cdrom. Is this an issue? Edited February 9, 20197 yr by gapy10
February 10, 20197 yr http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/246321-30-ds3l-flash-drive-boot-problem Few things to try. Make sure you're not using EFI boot for your USB stick. Make sure your BIOS is fully updated. Latest version appears to be F9, make sure you download the correct one for your motherboard version (v1 or v2)
February 10, 20197 yr Author I checked and i have the lateat bios The latest is F14 you can see here: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P35-DS3-rev-20#support-dl-bios My revision is 2.0 Edited February 10, 20197 yr by gapy10
February 10, 20197 yr One thing I will say, pretty sure Unraid requires 4GB of RAM, and you're only rocking 2GB. So you may want to evaluate how much effort you put into this endeavour.
February 10, 20197 yr Author I looked before and it says: At least 1GB of RAM https://lime-technology.com/wp/hardware-requirements/ I will not be runing any virtual mashines, I am making a storage server Edited February 10, 20197 yr by gapy10
February 10, 20197 yr Community Expert You should be able to run Unraid on 2GB RAM if you do not intend to use VMs or Docker containers. Note, however, that trying to update Unraid via the GUI is likely to fail if you 0nly have 2GB RAM. In such a case the manual upgrade process needs to be used.
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