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Yes, thanks Joe L. You've been helping people on this forum for versions and versions. After rebooting and reseting Primary Boot Order in BIOS I now only have 1324 minutes until my parity check is complete. 0 errors so far and none expected. Server works as expected. Shares are accessible. USB is definitely GOOD. Thanks again Joe L.

Hi, I came home from vacation and cannot access my shares anymore. Here's what I've discovered so far .. - There must have been a server reset due to power loss even though I have an APC. - I am using ver 4.7 - My syslog is too large to attach -- it won't zip small enough and I tried pastebin but too large there also - I can access unMenu Main page but the syslog section on the bottom only shows "e </BODY></HTML> 0" (on three lines) - All other unMenu links show "e </BODY></HTML> 0" (on three lines) except for About and Help pages - On the unMenu Main page I (think) I used to see an entry for my USB stick (/dev/sde1 boot) but it is not there anymore - on telnet I can see /boot /dev/sde1 with the command df and shows 41% used - ls /boot shows nothing (this is not correct -- there are supposed to be my files and GO script in there) - I killed and restarted emhttp from the telenet console - I'm afraid to turn the server off at this point. What should be my next best step to fix my once wonderful server? Thanks very much!

Thank you for your suggestion BLKMGK! I never got to try your suggestion because it occurred to me that I wasn’t even getting into the boot screens for unRAID. It would freeze on the IRQ screen and not proceed. I had a port 80 code of 94 which means that the POST process was not completing all the way. I searched some more and found this - the solution to my server’s problem — http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4772.msg45030#msg45030 . My CMOS battery from 2008 finally died and my BIOS couldn’t recognize my hardware any longer. I simply replaced the battery on my motherboard, cleared the CMOS using the motherboard jumper, and re-configured the BIOS to have AHCI protocol on SATA and Boot from USB. Now my server is back up and doing a parity check. So far, so good. Thanks again. Love unRAID!

Thank you. I will do as you suggest. I will backup my USB stick. Copy my go script to a new file name. Replace it with the following go script. #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility # /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & # This is to speed up LAN browsing # echo nameserver 192.168.1.1 >/etc/resolv.conf echo 192.168.1.169 tower >>/etc/hosts # Sleep 5 sec to let the drive boot up # sleep 5 # To copy edited mover scirpt back to system # # This script will not place non-error entries into the syslog # cp /boot/mover /usr/local/sbin/mover # To speed up disk drive access in the array # blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md1 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md2 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md3 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md4 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md5 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md6 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md7 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md8 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md9 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md10 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md11 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md12 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md13 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md14 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md15 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md16 blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/md17 # Run startup scripts # echo "Start Swap Drive Install" /boot/swapon.sh sleep 1 echo "Finished Swap Drive Install" # /boot/setup_anon_shares.sh And try to boot. I’ll let you know how it turns out. I really think it is a hardware issue but your suggestion makes a lot of sense. Thanks very much.

I hope this will work for me. Sounds like it will. I want to replace my mother board, memory, CPU, and use a SAS controller. Only problem is I cannot first view the unRAID setup page because my server has crashed and will no longer boot. I do however have an old syslog and some of the unRAID status OK emails from the add-ins. Could I figure out the assignments using that info? I have an unRaid 4.7 system that stopped working in June. I couldn't spend any time on it because of work and now my son and daughter are asking for the server back. Also, I need to get some of our valuable pictures off of the server some how. The system had been working flawlessly for years. All of a sudden it crashed and won't boot. There was some kind of a popup about a database corruption and then the system shutdown and I cannot reboot. Unfortunately, I don't have the syslog because it crashed and there was no opportunity to save it. I do have earlier syslogs and I have the hourly status emails from the add-in so I think I can figure out which hard drive is assigned to which unRaid drive by serial number if I had to. I believe the data is fine on the drives so I'm hoping for suggestions on how to bring the server back up? It is an older server I built in 2008 with 15 disks plus a cache drive and a swap drive. It's using an Abit AB9-Pro motherboard with two Rosewill RC-211 2 port SATA II PCI Express Host Controller Cards and an Adaptec 4 port SATA controller card. Thanks for any help -- I miss my unRaid server.

I love this script. It makes having a media server work with unRAID so much more enjoyable. It works great with XBMC on the orginial XBOX (kind of, see below). However, after leaving it running for a while something goes wrong. When I look at the top command I see that spin_drives.sh is maxing out one of my CPUs at 100%. top - 20:36:37 up 8 days, 2:44, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 1.09, 1.05 Tasks: 92 total, 2 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 50.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 50.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4151240k total, 4097816k used, 53424k free, 208140k buffers Swap: 4249152k total, 156k used, 4248996k free, 3353284k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 21129 root 20 0 4140 2288 312 R 100 0.1 4102:31 spin_drives.sh When I look at the running processes I can actually see two instances of spin_drives.sh. Is that correct? root 29570 1 0 1035 2888 0 Mar12 ? 00:00:17 /bin/bash /boot/spin_drives.sh root 21129 29570 99 1035 2288 0 Mar13 ? 2-20:19:07 \_ /bin/bash /boot/spin_drives.sh I don't see anything in my syslog pertaining to this but could easily post one if someone thought it would help out. Does anybody else have this problem or have a suggestion as how to fix it? Thanks very much.

This might not be the fastest way but I run a lean vm of XP on the unRAID box to convert DVD files on unRAID into ISOs for my XBMC. I use DVDShrink on the VM for this conversion. It might not be faster than command line (I'll look into that) but it is way faster than doing it on a local computer because the data doesn't have to make the network round trips and all the processing is within unRAID. It works great.

Hi, I've run preclear_disk.sh on a drive. I'm most of the way through. All steps say done but I'm on the "Post-Read in progress: 88% complete" step. It appears as if the console has locked. I cannot see any updates and it's been a little while (over 2 hours). I can see in TOP that the "./preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdi" process is spiking one of my processors with 99% cpu utilization. Should I wait it out and hope for the best -- or try to kill the process and start over? Attached is my syslog for your review. Thank you.

OMG -- I'm such a rookie. First I should have backed up my flash before trying ANYTHING including enabling BubbaRaid. Then when my flash wouldn't boot I should have immediately checked the BIOS settings. Somehow they changed when i enabled BubbaRaid. That's all I needed to do (change the boot order in the BIOS). Before I figured it out I reformatted my flash and re-installed everything. Oh well, I'm back and running again pretty much where I left off. All I can say is that I learned a few good fundamental lessons. No more late night shortcuts.

Oops -- I think I messed up. I tried to run the enable batch script while the flash drive was still in the unRAID box. Then when it wouldn't install I pulled the card and ran it directly from my windows laptop. Everything said Success but when I went to boot the server came back with DISK BOOT FAILURE - INSERT SYSTEM DISK. When I look at my Go script all the stuff in there is gone. Same with the Go.original in the bubba directory. I have to assume that my Syslinux.cfg is gone also. I have some older backups of my flash -- but they are inaccessible because they are stored on the downed server (that needs some re-thinking). I've taken my flash back out of the server, put it back into my laptop and disabled bubba from the batch file. Still won't boot. Do I need to reformat, rebuild and flash my boot flash drive? Will my configurations (vmware, still be intact on my card? I guess I have to save them off somehow. How much trouble do you think I'm in and what are the best suggestions for getting back to where I was. Thanks very much.

Did my drive die? I have the red disk_disabled indicator. Here is a syslog. Thank you very much for any helpful information.

musicmann, I turn my server off when I'm not going to use it for a few hours or overnight. Do you think this will become a problem for me? It would be great to get this integrated into the powerdown script that people are using. I'm pretty novice but am willing to do some research -- let me know if I can help. As a short term solution, I added vmware status, start, and stop to unmenu to make it a little more convenient to stop vmware before shutting down the system. Here is the link to the thread -- http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2110.msg19400#msg19400.

That was it -- thanks so much! It works great! Anyone who is waiting for SlimServer or whatever, this is one way to get it running from unraid. Thanks musicmann -- great tutorial.

musicmann, I've been working for weeks on this. Took me a long time to finally figure out how to put together a development system in vm. Then your directions for installing vmware were great -- thanks. I think I have everything running properly on my unRAID box. Here is the vmware status command to confirm -- root@Tower:/etc/pam.d# /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware status Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running Host network detection is not running Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 is running DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 is running Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 is running NAT networking on /dev/vmnet8 is running Module vmmon loaded Module vmnet loaded root@Tower:/etc/pam.d# However, I cannot log into the console. When VMware Infrastucture Web Access console asks me for my Login Name and Password, I enter the same root <password> combination I use to log into unRAID. Then the console returns -- Login failed due to a bad username or password. I've spent quiet a lot of time searching Google for the resolution to this problem but have not found the correct answer for this implementation. Could I have installed the wrong PAM? I used the one in your instructions called linux-pam-1.0.1-i486-1cjm.tgz (not the one in the code snippet linux-pam-0.99.10.0-i486-1gufo.tgz). Is this my problem? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, I have a lot of time invested in this and feel like I'm very close to getting it to work. Thanks!

Thanks musicmann, I have seen JoseTann's page previously but didn't connect that it could also help build the proper development platform. This makes sense and I'll follow those directions and see if I can get a little farther. Thanks for the advice and quick response.