HDGuy

I have a whole bunch of topics to address with my Lenovo PX4-400D NAS but I'll do it one topic at a time. Is there a way to stop UNRAID from seeing the it's 1GB internal flash drive? I want to buy the Basic package but it's taking up one of my 6 valuable device slots. It's showing up as: Name: Dev 1 Identification: _USB_DISK_2.0_65003C1BAA4A2A08-0:0 (sdb) It's an unassigned device but it's getting just as many reads (millions) as the drives assigned to my array. I suppose I can eventually figure a way to boot UNRAID from it, but it's really too small to do anything with. Currently I'm booting off a 64GB USB 3.0 flashdrive.

It has the latest BIOS, but it is old although it does support UEFI booting. I have my first boot device set as UEFI. I also have a PCI-E NVME adapter card with a 128GB NVME drive in it and UnRaid doesn't seem to see it (maybe I'm missing it). I haven't set up an array yet.

When trying to boot locally into the GUI I just get a blinking cursor. I searched a few topics and followed some of the suggestions, including installing the intel-gpu-top package and nothing seemed to work, still a blinking cursor. Terminal works fine. Finally managed to get into the web GUI again. I'll post my diagnostics. px4-400d-diagnostics-20211114-1623.zip

Bumping this- I've given up on the GUI for now off USB Flash (work on internal boot later) and was able to access it once from a browser. Problem is DHCP doesn't seem to be working, almost every boot I can't get a valid address, just 169.xxx. Any ideas? Would assigning a static address solve this issue?

Unfortunately the bios resets the boot order after it loses power, so if there’s a power outage I will have to access the device every time to change it back to boot off USB manually. So it makes keeping it in an out of the way place (like a closet) difficult. I tried booting it off a USB flash and had some difficulties with that as well (it booted just gave me a blinking cursor or maybe couldn’t access my network, I don’t remember which, I’ve been trying a few different NAS packages). I will fool around with it more later and post some more details.

https://azxiana.io/2020/10/27/building-a-home-nas-for-163-usd/ I picked up a PX4-400D cheap off eBay with the intention of installing UnRaid on the internal 1GB flash. Azxiana was able to do it (unfortunately she’s not responding to my inquiries). I followed her directions and eventually get hung up on the part where I’m supposed to rebuild the boot block with: sh /tmp/UNRAID/syslinux/make_bootable_linux.sh /dev/sda When I do this it usually says something like the files aren’t found. I assume the problem is running a Linux executable off a Fat32 partition? I’m not sure how she was able to do it. I’m not at the computer right now (needed to take a break, reached my frustration point) but when I am I will provide the exact errors. I installed 8GB of ram and a 128GB of NVME for a buffer as well. At least one person was able to accomplish this, so I know it’s doable. I’m a Linux novice as well, but I must be missing something.