Hey all, i am trying to setup Unraid on an HP DL160 G5 for my office, as a cheap file server (yes its old, but it's a server i picked up basically for free last year for my personal rack, and never used until now that i need a small server for file sharing at my office)

 

I am not sure that the issue i am having is an Unraid issue, or an installing on an OLD Hp server issue lol. Any help is appreciated.

When i try and install, i have my USB created via the install tool, adjusted BIOS to run USB as #1 in the boot order, ive set the USB as FORCED-FDD and to AUTO so far, both have the same issue down the line.

I then F10 to save and reboot but when i get to the boot screen it asks to "F10 for ROM based setup utility" which just goes back to the BIOS boot manager and "F12 for PXE boot" if i F12, or if i choose nothing and let it time out it ends up just sitting there and a little underscore flashes in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I let it sit for like a half hour thinking maybe it was just taking a bit. but nothing happened...

There are 4 USB mounts on the server, and I have tried every one with the install media ( 2 in front 2 in back), I remade the install media as well, and remade again to install with UEFI too. everything seems to come up with the same hangup. I feel like there is a deeper issue, again probably not UNriad but wondering if anyone has any solutions?

 

just for reference its got Dual Intel Xeon E5430 2.66GHz Quad-Core CPU's, 32GB ram, and 4 x 2TB Hard drives

I really want to try and save this thing from having to scrap it for parts (if i cant get it to work with unraid at my office i sure aint using it at home lol) so any help at all would be great!!

You haven't yet been able to convince your BIOS  to boot from the Flash. 

24 minutes ago, Enekuda said:

set the USB as FORCED-FDD and to AUTO

Try another. 

have you tried booting the stick on another machine?

when I made mine, the creation tool never worked, so I just did a disk format and ran the make_bootable.bat script as an administrator.

I don't remember what the BIOS settings are, but I'm 99.9% sure it's nothing beyond auto everything.

I'm also 99.9% sure it's not a UEFI boot drive.