addboy Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 I get a message that floppy disk is not bootable? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Assuming you have prepared Flash drive correctly, you will have to work with your BIOS to get it to boot. Can't tell more without more information from you. Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) I have set Bios to boot from USB. The BIOS sees the USB and is set to boot from it first. The USB is a 64 GB, could that be the issue / Thx Edited September 29, 2020 by addboy Update Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 How did you prepare flash drive? Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 Using the web tool on the Unraid site. Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 Tried a 16GB ScanDsk USB 3.00 and the same thing. Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Try to rename the directory "EFI-" to "EFI" and see if this helps. Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 no still saying no bootable device. can see usb in BIOS. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Try the manual method to prepare flash: https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Getting_Started#Manual_Method_.28Legacy.29 Quote Link to comment
Alphahelix Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Try to enter boot menu in bios during bootup (F12 on some systems) and manual select the USB , I have to do this everytime. if I set BIOS to boot directly automatically on the very same USB it stalls during the first bootloader. Try to see if this works for you. Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) I have tried this and used different USB sticks. Seems this load is not ready for prime time. I even tried manually making a load on the stick myself. Thanks to all for your help. Dave Edited September 29, 2020 by addboy Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 2 hours ago, addboy said: Seems this load is not ready for prime time. Lots of people not having these problems. Can you get anything other than Unraid to boot from flash on this hardware? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Most BIOS you set it to boot via a hard drive and select the flash from the list of hard drives Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 Yes 'I did that and could see the flash drive listed. I then made that the default drive to boot from. that is when I get the error that the drive is not bootable. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 18 hours ago, trurl said: Can you get anything other than Unraid to boot from flash on this hardware? If you can boot some other OS like a linux distro on that hardware, then that would indicate the problem isn't with how you are booting from USB, and we can try to figure out why that Unraid flash isn't bootable. Alternatively, can you boot any other computer using that Unraid flash you prepared? If so, then that would indicate the problem isn't with the Unraid flash, and we can try to figure out why that hardware isn't booting from USB. Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 let me look for something to try and see if I get the same problem Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 (edited) Just got MX-Linux to boot from USB. I then used same USB with Uneaid and still got message disk is not bootable. Edited September 30, 2020 by addboy Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 Just went to use zip file and try to use a SSD and Etcher says there is no partition table. Quote Link to comment
ich777 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Got the same on my second Server (Sandy Bridge) too when upgrading from beta25 to beta29, had to run the 'make_bootable' as admin aigain and had to say NO when asked if I want to permit UEFI boot. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 4 hours ago, addboy said: try to use a SSD You can't boot Unraid from SSD Quote Link to comment
addboy Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 Still no boot. Quote Link to comment
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