July 1, 20197 yr Hi all, I recently had to change USB devices because my previous one is hanging on by a thread. After getting my license switched over I can not get this USB to boot unraid. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Some details. 16GB Lexar USB, Created from a backup of my current on downloaded via the web client. USB is formatted and written with the backup made via the unraid USB creator I've been through the BIOS and made sure its trying to boot to that device. I've selected the boot manager and then selected the device, only boots to a screen with a blinking cursor.
July 2, 20197 yr Community Expert See if you can get a new install to boot. If that works just copy the config folder from your backup.
July 24, 20196 yr Author Sorry for the delayed response, I was away on vacation. I can't seem to get this USB to boot even to a fresh install. Maybe the USB is bad? It still boots to a blank screen with a flashing cursor.
July 25, 20196 yr Community Expert On 6/30/2019 at 8:02 PM, blackrabbit said: After getting my license switched over I can not get this USB to boot unraid. Any help would be greatly appreciated. How did you do this if the drive won't boot? If you think you have a bad USB drive, just prepare a new install on a different drive using a download from LimeTech. You really don't care about using your existing configuration on this build. You just want to see if this drive will boot up. That Lexar USB you purchased-- Did it come with any other software/utilities included on it? If it did, check to see if the drive has more than one partition on it. (Google can be your friend if you have never worked with disk layouts ...) You did purchase this drive? It wasn't a giveaway at a street fair or something like that? (This may seem to be an wild off-the-wall thought but these giveaways are not always safe and free from malware.) For a bit of fun, google rubber ducky and look at what can be done with a USB drive. This is a typical rubber ducky: https://hackaday.com/2019/07/24/an-open-hardware-rubber-ducky/
July 30, 20196 yr Author Im not sure what it is booting to. I have tried different USB's, both were purchased not given. Both have been reformatted. Checked for other partitions etc... nothing there.
July 30, 20196 yr Community Expert Hook up a monitor and keyboard and observe the boot process. Then describe what you see on the screen.
July 30, 20196 yr Author I have both plugged in. It goes through the normal flash screen, then installs my boot ROM. Next step on the working USB is that it boots unraid. Now it just goes to a black screen with a flashing cursor.
July 30, 20196 yr Author Changed the settings in bios from Forced-FFD to Auto for USB and it finally booted. Thought i started out with auto.. oh well. Im happy.
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