[SOLVED] Unable to boot Unraid on Asus Prime X570-Pro

[Kaos809]

Hello all

 

I upgraded my setup and installed a Asus Prime X570-Pro with a Ryzen 9 3900X. I updated the Bios to the latest version but when I try to boot of Unraid again from USB, it doesn't boot, the boot options only recognizes the UEFI partition of the USB and even after disabling secure but in Bios, that's the only option from USB that I can see.

What am I missing or doing wrong? Can anyone assist. Btw,  I've only been using Unraid for about 3 weeks. 

Thanks in advance.

[Hoopster]

18 minutes ago, Kaos809 said:

Hello all

 

I upgraded my setup and installed a Asus Prime X570-Pro with a Ryzen 9 3900X. I updated the Bios to the latest version but when I try to boot of Unraid again from USB, it doesn't boot, the boot options only recognizes the UEFI partition of the USB and even after disabling secure but in Bios, that's the only option from USB that I can see.

What am I missing or doing wrong? Can anyone assist. Btw,  I've only been using Unraid for about 3 weeks. 

Thanks in advance.

Have you tried modifying the unRAID USB drive so it boots UEFI?

 

Rename the EFI- folder on the flash drive to EFI (no trailing '-') if you have not already done so.

[Kaos809]

On 4/4/2020 at 11:28 PM, Hoopster said:

Have you tried modifying the unRAID USB drive so it boots UEFI?

 

Rename the EFI- folder on the flash drive to EFI (no trailing '-') if you have not already done so.

Thnx for the advice, i was able to make some other changes and it booted.

[baumix]

On 4/7/2020 at 2:41 AM, Kaos809 said:

Thnx for the advice, i was able to make some other changes and it booted.

Can you please share the changes you made?

I may try a setup with Asus Prime X570-Pro, so how are your experiences with this board?

[Kaos809]

I turned off fast boot, removed boot keys, enabled legacy boot. Changed the boot order and disabled all other drives from the list. 

As for what specifically did it, I really dont know but it booted.

Edit:
I think I figured out what it caused my issue. I was leaving only the UNRAID USB drive alone as an option to boot from and "disabled" all other options/drives. Seems the BIOS dont like that, once I added another option (used one of the other drives that has no OS in) but left the boot order to boot the UNRAID first, it booted fine.

Edited April 27, 2020 by Kaos809

[Flannoland]

I have tried this so many times today and I can get it to boot into unraid using UEFI (not legacy) but when I try and GPU passthrough to install a win10 VM I get nothing but a black screen

Edited January 8, 2021 by Flannoland
missed words

[trurl]

3 hours ago, Flannoland said:

can get it to boot into unraid using UEFI

You have replied to an old thread, marked solved, about a problem that you don't have. It would be better if you started a new thread. 

[ChipBuffalo]

On 4/4/2020 at 9:28 PM, Hoopster said:

Have you tried modifying the unRAID USB drive so it boots UEFI?

 

Rename the EFI- folder on the flash drive to EFI (no trailing '-') if you have not already done so.

Could not get my MSI X570-A Pro to boot for anything, tried various USB drives for two days now. No luck. Then I found your recommendation "Rename the EFI- folder on the flash drive to EFI" and works like a charm! 

Thank you Hoopster!

[TimV]

Thanks.  I was trying to use a ASUS Z590-A and was not able to boot.   The suggestions in this thread helped me to get it to boot,  however, it wants to do an Intel network boot first despite the USB being first in the chain.