Good morning,
I have been wrapping my brain around trying to install my unraid server on a new USB drive. This all started when I received an error on my unraid dashboard (first image). After some research I concluded that the flash drive was faulty. I purchased a Samsung BAR Plus after watching some reviews on which USB to use.
Then the headaches started. I first grabbed a flash backup from my running unraid server. I shut it down and using the creation tool ran the ZIP file on my new USB with UEFI enabled. However, when I installed this stick and ran it in Unraid at first it would fail to post only blinking after the motherboard screen. Since restarting and trying again I continue to get a 169 address. I understand it is failing to acquire an address from DHCP. However, when I type ifconfig. The proper IP address shows up under br0 and nothing shows under eth0. Please know that I have many other computers on the network obtaining IP addresses perfectly fine. The server also had the correct IP address before the flash drive change.
I have attempted the following:
1. Change out the ethernet cable and ports on both ends.
2. Use a third different flash drive.
3. Use the old flash drive again (just goes to a blinking post screen after the motherboard screen)
4. Use the unraid flash creator with the backup zip file (makes it to the Unraid OS screen with 5 second timer and repeats in a loop fails to boot)
5. Use the Unraid Flash Creator with a fresh Stable release. This loads correctly but gives me a 169 ipv4 address. ifconfig shows the correct 192 address under br0 and I am able to access the UI. However, I cannot successful get my pro.key to install. There is only a Purchase and Trial buttons.
I am extremely afraid I just lost all my data if I have to start with a new Unraid OS. The data is on the HDDs, but the array is no longer available with the USB drive issues I am having. I have no idea how or where to pull the systemlogs from the CLI and I see no logs file on the flash drive.
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aurous Master
CPU: AMD 3600X
RAM: Tridentz Royal 3600 mhz