NASLite Network Attached Storage

I purchased the USB version yesterday and finally got a chance to work on it tonight. I already knew that my motherboard has problems booting from a flash drive. I tried the kicker CD (the panasonic one) from freenas.info and it sees the flash drive when scanning the usb bus, but it won't launch NASLite from it. I don't have a floppy in the system. Any suggestions?

How have you formatted the USB stick - disk or superfloppy? Try formatting it the other way round?

I tried both and neither worked. Next I'm going to try another motherboard I've been putting off repairing. It just needs the bios flashed and I should be able to do this in this machine.

Hi toricred,

Have you got another usb pen you can try, or even a old Mp3 player will do..

What Motherboard is in the server and what kit you got connected?
also what usb settings you got in the Bios..

thanks

I've tried with two different usb sticks from different manufacturers. The motherboard is an Biostar M7NCD.

I'm not sure what you mean by "kit". The USB has been set to legacy enabled and again with it disabled. I'm not trying to boot from the USB so the boot only includes the CD drive.

Hi,

Well it looks like you tried everything, shame that usually if the kicker sees the usb pen it boots it.

Good luck with the other Motherboard.

FWIW, I too have an old 16M USB flash drive that NL kicker won't boot off of.

OK, I got it working with the original motherboard by using a PCI card I had for USB ports. I'm guessing there's something wrong with the USB ports on the motherboard. That might explain why Windows kept having the USB mouse drop and come back every 5-7 minutes.