Hey all,
I've done everything I can think of at this point, but after attempting to update my Unraid server (a Mac Pro 5,1) from 6.9.2 to 6.11.5 I am unable to boot. Receiving the kernel panic error in the title. Here's what I've tried:
- 3 different USB devices on several different ports, setting them up using Windows and a Mac both
- Manually creating the flash drive vs. using the USB creator
- Copying a backup of my flash drive from 1/13/23
- Copying a backup of my flash drive from 6/12/22
- Appending "root=sda" to the first boot option (also tried sda1 and sd*)
- Deleting the network-rules.cfg file (someone on Reddit said this resolved it for them)
- Copying my backup over and then replacing the bz* files
- Creating the boot drive with 6.9.2, 6.10.3, 6.115
It lists my available partitions as:
0800 30044160 sda
driver: sd
0801 30043136 sda1
Neither of the backup syslinux.cfg files has a "root=" option appended so I really don't think this is it but I'm out of ideas. I know Apple hardware seems to be notoriously difficult to keep Unraid running on, and everyone always says to replace the USB drive like that's a fix-all, but this is a bug that seems to date back to like 6.5 at least and is still occurring and there is no consistent fix for it. Here are links to all the threads I used so if there is a solution someday someone can reference all these. None of these methods have worked for me:
I haven't tried going all the way back to something nuts like 6.2.4 suggested here but I've tried 6.9.2.
I think that's probably enough references, but I've used Reddit too. I ran into this issue previously once and I thought that I solved it by restoring a backup of my flash drive, but that did not work this time.
I've been at this for hours over the course of two days now so if anyone has any other ideas it would be greatly appreciated.