USB not bootable

[addboy]

I get a message that floppy disk is  not bootable?

[trurl]

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. 

[addboy]

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

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Thx

Edited September 29, 2020 by addboy
Update

[trurl]

How did you prepare flash drive?

[addboy]

Using the web tool on the Unraid site.

[addboy]

Tried a 16GB ScanDsk USB 3.00 and the same thing.

[ChatNoir]

Try to rename the directory "EFI-" to "EFI" and see if this helps.

[addboy]

no still saying no bootable device. can see 

usb in BIOS.

[trurl]

Try the manual method to prepare flash:

https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Getting_Started#Manual_Method_.28Legacy.29

[Alphahelix]

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.

[addboy]

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

[trurl]

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?

[Squid]

Most BIOS you set it to boot via a hard drive and select the flash from the list of hard drives

[addboy]

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.

[trurl]

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.

[addboy]

let me look for something to try and see if I get the same problem

[addboy]

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

[addboy]

Just went to use zip file and try to use a SSD and Etcher says there is no partition table.

[ich777]

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.

[trurl]

4 hours ago, addboy said:

try to use a SSD

You can't boot Unraid from SSD

[addboy]

Still no boot.