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Ok, great! Thank you very much for your support! I have managed to downgrade to 6.11.5 and for now I'm happy with that! If it may be useful to anyone for the downgrade I followed this guide: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/troubleshooting/#manually-upgrading-or-downgrading-an-unraid-release

Hello @JorgeB, sorry for my terrible delay, but I've been busy with my now enlarged family and I could not find time for my server. I can confirm you that a brand new install of 6.12 using a new drive is not booting, so we are probably looking at a kernel related issue I guess. Should I renew my hardware? Or it is something that can somehow be fixed? Thank you!

Thank @ljm42, unfortunately I did not find any file named vfio-pci.cfg. Here you can find the list of files that are on the usb drive, in case it might be useful. I ran the drive repair on Windows, but it did not find any errors on the drive. My server is running on a Asrock j4205 board, can my problem be related to "Crashes related to i915 driver" mentioned in the changes.txt file? I made a video of the booting process, maybe some of you are able to spot something worng: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1QwBoP4sjerCyHzu7 Thank you for your help!

Hello everyone, recently I tried to upgrade my server to Unraid 6.12. The upgrade seemed to have been successful and I tried to reboot. Since then my server have't ever been able to boot correctly. The system tries to boot, I just see the bootloader screen, later on it starts to print the usual lines of text that show the boot process. Then nothing happens and the screen it's completely black. I've tried to boot using every other option of the bootloader, but it seems it is not able to boot at all and it's not visible on the network. I can't post diagnostics because I'm not able to reach a working terminal(nor with physical access nor with ssh). I tryied to unplug the usb device and search for diagnostics, but I just have files from February 2023. I'm very afraid because I have already changed my usb key in November 2022 and I'm not sure if I can get a new one if I have to replace the drive. The drive seems fine, I can access its content from windows. Windows ask me if I want to repair when I plug it in, but i always choose "no" and I can access the drive contents. What should I do/try?

Thank you pappaq for you answer and I'm sorry for my late answer. That's great, I can do some savings on the GPUs side by buying just one GPU. I still have to choose which one to buy considering the new boards Nvidia is throwing to the market. I'm trying to study as much as I can to figure out the best build for the money I can spend. Right now I'm thinking about waiting a little to let the new generation of Ryzen CPUs get to the market and so save a little money on the second generation. I'm also considering switching the Ryzen 2600 to the Ryzen 2700 to get the extra 2 cores/4 threads. I've still a lot of doubts about the motherboard. I can't find a lot of infos on most compatible motherboards and chipsets. Do any of you have any advice on this side?

Thank trurl for your answer! I totally agree with what you said in the first part. I have some other questions.. You can RDP / VNC to other VMs. Ok, I got that, when I create other virtual machines I specify VNC as Graphics card. But to correctly pass through a video card I should not specify it as primary graphics adapter of the system in the board BIOS. But since the Ryzen CPU I'm considering doesn't have an integrated graphics card, how will I be able to boot UnRaid? Can it boot "headless"? Do you have any concerns or advice about the hardware I've selected? thank you!

Hello everyone! So far I've tried a lot of builds and software configurations using ubuntu server, Windows server, Windows 10 but I've never been satisfied, and now I think Unraid with the conjunction of virtualization and containerization can finally satisfy my needs and give me the opportunity to learn a lot of new things. Right now my current build is: Asrock j4205 8GB DDR3 ram 2 500GB hard drives 1 3TB WD Red hard drive 1 120 GB SSD Case Cooler Master Silencio 452 500W PSU I'm now running Windows 10, but I'm facing a lot of problems starting from performance and ending to the crappy dp to hdmi internal converter of the board. So I'm planning to sell the Asrock board and RAM and keep the rest. My goal is to build a deadly silent NAS/HTPC with some sort of gaming capabilities that can handle a main Windows 10 VM for htpc/office/light_gaming use, nextcloud, home assistant, and come other docker instances. Please consider that gaming is the least important thing at the moment. My budget is not limited, I'd like to spend the least possible to have a system that I won't hate in the near future and that maybe can be upgraded. Here's a list of components I'm considering to buy: CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U12S SE-AM4 CPU Cooler Motherboard: MSI - B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GT 1030 2 GB Silent Low Profile Video Card 1 3TB WD Red hard drive My guess for the unraid configuration is to assign 4 cores to the main Windows VM and the remaining to unraid, docker and other light VMs. The GPU should be passed through to the main windows VM and will be attached to my main monitor. The new 3TB HD should become the parity drive for the 2 500GB drives and other drives I'd may buy later on and all will be part of an array. The 120 GB drive will become a cache drive. My current 3TB drive should be stand alone as will hold my movies collection and I can afford to losing it someday. Now the question part, I apologize in advance for the possibly stupid ones: What do you think of the hardware I'm considering? Do you have any suggestions? Can I create an array of disks of different sizes? 1 3TB and 2 500GB and possibly add later other drives to the same array? Can I use just one SSD as cache drive? Can I run desktop environments in other VMs if the GPU is passed through to the main Windows VM? I sincerely thank you in advance for any tip and advice you'll provide.