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With the M1015 installed (and all other PCI-e cards removed) the boot process never gets as far as allowing keyboard input from the USB keyboard. With the card removed, the system boots as expected (or -- with everything removed, gives the expected message about inserting boot media).
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Just now, jonathanm said:
Are you sure that's IT mode? It doesn't look like it to me.
I know that it is NOT in IT mode. My first step was trying to boot so that I could update the firmware. That is where I'm stuck.
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After more attempts, I'm starting to believe I can't use this M1015 controller board (at least, with current firmware) with my ASRock 970 Extreme 4 motherboard. It continues to hang at the same spot. Unfortunately, I don't have any other machines to use to try to swap the firmware.
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Ok -- crisis averted. Thank goodness for my note taking! I had a similar issue in 2016, in that something caused the BIOS to reset to defaults, and by default, it selected PCIe over PCI for graphics card, (I have one of each) and it turns OFF IOMMU, which means none of the passthrough devices (the PCIe graphics controller and, more importantly the SAN controller) were seen by VMware ESXi. Resettings those two settings and restarting the machine fixed my issues!
So -- this leaves me back where I started -- not sure if there is a conflict not allowing the old and new disk controllers to be active in the machine at the same time? Motherboard is an: ASRock 970 Extreme4 AMD AM3+John
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Sadly -- my first attempt did not go well. I installed the new controller card (without any drives attached), and restarted the system. The system saw the controller card on boot, and gave the message about no drives found, and said to press any key to continue -- but no keyboard input was allowed. I shutdown, removed the card, and booted up again. This time around the system saw the old controller, but first started to boot to my unRAID USB stick. I shut down, removed the unRAID stick, and it started up again, but graphics came up on the wrong video card. ESXi started to boot this time, but would hang just after 'iodm loaded successfully'. I could connect to ESXi from the web interface even though the ESXi console still shows "loading" for the remaining drivers, but ESXi didn't see the passthrough controller, nor the video card that was previously set for passthrough!
Not sure where to go next. I'm tempted to start from scratch with the new controller card, and just rebuild everything... But that is always more work than I think it'll be...
Any ideas? Could this be as simple as the BIOS is confused?
Thanks!
John -
Great stuff! Thanks for taking the leap for us all.
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7 hours ago, uldise said:
just be sure it's flashed in IT mode..
Thanks for that reminder. I bought this stuff about 3 months ago, but then life got busy. Now -- for some reason -- I have extra time at home...
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Thanks @Doron -- that does sound like a great approach. Now to see if I have a spare PCI port of the appropriate type to have both disk controllers active! The system has been running smoothly for a few years now, so I haven't had to crack the case for a couple of years.
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Greetings,
I'm running UnRAID 6.8.3 as a Guest OS on ESXi 6.7.0. It's been running well for years, but I have a very old disk controller that can't handle drives larger than 2 TB. I've recently purchased a new controller and new (larger) drives.
What is the recommended approach to migrate from the old controller and drives to the new controller and drives? "New" controller (not that new of a product, but new to me) is an LSI SAS9220-8i. The whole controller is passed through to the UnRAID VM.
It looks like I might be able to attach all the old and new drives to this (8 connectors) but not sure if my motherboard can power 8 drives...
I'm in no hurry, but looking for suggestions.
Thanks!
John -
Thanks!
Since memory was the issue, and since UNRAID is running as a VM, I just increased memory to the VM, and the upgrade went smoothly.
John
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Greetings,
I recently attempted to upgrade from 6.7.0 to 6.7.2, and the upgrade would fail with filled disk. I can connect to server, delete all in /previous and continue on with the 6.7.0. I could replace the USB boot device, but the device itself is showing 3.5 GB free. Is a partition getting filled up? Is there some directory I should manually clear out?
I've attached my diagnostics. Thanks for any suggestions.
Thanks!
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1 hour ago, wgstarks said:
I think he means your unRAID server.
I need to have coffee before responding.
But yes, also true, no root password in my unRAID server either. That caused me to look at the installation process. I don't recall a step requesting me to set root password. My initial unRAID installation was a few years ago, and I've been upgrading ever since. So now I'm unsure if setting a password, or disabling root would cause a problem or not.
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17 hours ago, ljm42 said:
I'm guessing you haven't set a root password? Safari has issues with authenticated websockets, which means if you have a root password set you probably won't see the CPU load
Interesting. You are correct. Root is disabled on this Mac. I guess I haven't found anything I need to do on this Mac that I can't do with sudo.
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1 hour ago, wgstarks said:Really. I’ll have to test mine again. All I got was a blank screen the last time I tested the terminal window.
Do your cpu loads also display correctly in the dashboard tab?
Yes -- both looked fine. See attached.
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Just a note to say that upgrading my very simple unRAID VM on VMware ESXi 6.0 from 6.3.5 to 6.4.1 worked very smoothly.
Also - the web terminal works just fine for me from Safari 11.0.3 on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3.
Thanks.
John
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(I think the Open VM Tools thread has been hijacked - perhaps the discussion of getting 6.4 for work with ESXi should be a separate thread in the Virtualizing UnRAID section).
https://lime-technology.com/forums/forum/46-virtualizing-unraid/
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I, too, upgraded my drives to XFS before moving to 6.x. I'm on ESXi 6.0.0.
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14 hours ago, itsrumsey said:
Question for those using ESXi. I understand the free version only support 8 vCPUs. If I am running a dual processor configuration, with 8 cores and 16 threads each, for a total of 32 threads and 16 cores... can I utilize all of these in one VM on the free edition?
I do think you are limited to 8. Remember, though, that the underlying resources not assigned to the VM are also used to support the VM processes if they are available and needed.
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Yes. This is still required after the release of 6.2.
Thanks. I'll have this in my bag of tricks when I next set aside time to troubleshoot an upgrade. Any idea if this configuration change would be required for this card? This is the one I'm currently passing through to my unRAID VM. It's not a great card, but it serves my needs for now, until I need more or larger drives.
http://vb.net/products/LSILOGIC/lsiSAS3041ERds.pdf
FYI - I upgraded my unRAID VM on ESXi 6.0 from 6.1.9 to 6.2.1 today, and did not need to add this boot change.
The driver on my machine (what I see when the physical machine boots) is:
LSI Corporation MPT SAS BIOS
MPTBIOS-6.22.00.00 (2008.04.10)
Copyright 2000-2008 LSI Corporation
But thanks to this thread, I was ready in case I needed it. I did also restart my ESXi server in the process.
John
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Also looking forward to an update for 6.2.1.
Thanks!
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i'm running plopKExec on my offsite server - just download plopKexec iso image, add it to your unRAID VM, and thats all.. plopKexec boots, then it scans flash drives, finds unRAID flash, then automatically boots first boot choice of the flash..
So just to confirm -- After I download the plopkexec iso image, and put it on my ESXi server, all I need to do is change the particular virtual machine setting for CD/DVD Drive 1 to use the new ISO image, and no longer use the plpbtmycd.iso file, correct?
I've got multiple USB memory sticks in my server -- will it give me a chance to find the correct one, or does this use the USB 1 field, as I currently have it defined with the existing PLOP configuration?
Thanks,
John
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Yes. This is still required after the release of 6.2.
Thanks. I'll have this in my bag of tricks when I next set aside time to troubleshoot an upgrade. Any idea if this configuration change would be required for this card? This is the one I'm currently passing through to my unRAID VM. It's not a great card, but it serves my needs for now, until I need more or larger drives.
http://vb.net/products/LSILOGIC/lsiSAS3041ERds.pdf
Thanks,
John
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The workaround solution was to add mpt3sas.msix_disable=1 option to the syslinux config.
Is this still required with the release version of 6.2?
I'm currently running unRAID 6.1.9 as a guest on vmWare ESXi 6.0.
Thanks,
John
But yes, also true, no root password in my unRAID server either. That caused me to look at the installation process. I don't recall a step requesting me to set root password. My initial unRAID installation was a few years ago, and I've been upgrading ever since. So now I'm unsure if setting a password, or disabling root would cause a problem or not.
Controller and drive upgrade advice (ESXi Guest)
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Yes the motherboard has a PS/2 keyboard connection. I've got a note out to some local friends to see if they have a PS/2 keyboard I can borrow. I did also try every USB port on the machine - just in case.
Thanks for you ideas. I appreciate it.
John