Unraid server won't boot up after I created a W8.1 VM on a passed through unassigned device SSD

[feargus001100]

Hello All,

New to the Unraid forum.

Have been using Unraid solely as a file server for the last six months.

Created my first VM the other day.

Used the VM page in Unraid, pretty much left most of the settings on the page as their defaults, but passed through an unassigned device ( an old spare SSD that I had ) as the primary vDisk using the below syntax

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SSD_PM800_2.5__128GB_[## Device ## ID ## Number ##]

Now when I power up my Unraid server instead of setting up unraid and then going into that command line looking DOS screen it boots up W8.1 as if it were a physical PC.

 

What did I do wrong?

 

Some other FYI's ( not sure if these are helpful ):

Used virtio-win-0.1.171 when creating the VM

And am on the most current version of Unraid as of 4/15/2020

Thanks for any help you guys can provide 😀

[trurl]

Check your BIOS to make sure it is booting from the flash drive.

 

In fact, make sure the flash is the only bootable device allowed in your BIOS, just in case there is something about flash that isn't working and your BIOS is going on to another device to boot from.

[feargus001100]

On 4/15/2020 at 3:59 PM, trurl said:

Check your BIOS to make sure it is booting from the flash drive.

 

THANK YOU @Constructor , that did the trick, much appreciated!