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Had to switch from UEFI boot to BIOS boot

Hi all, I've been running unRAID 5.11.5 on homebrew server for a few years. Been meaning to migrate to a R720 I bought last year. Last night something malfunctioned on the server (possibly motherboard or HBA card?). So now I'm forced to move to the R720. This R720 has a built-in H710 mini which I've successfully flashed to IT mode following the instructions here: https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html I've inserted the unRAID USB drive into the internal onboard USB slot and attempted to boot, without any drives connected. I'm getting an error message regardless of whether unRAID OS or unRAID OS GUI mode is selected: Failed to allocated memory for kernel command line, bailing out Booting kernel failed: Bad file number (screenshot attached) Very grateful for any help please. Server is offline so we can't access any of our files, data, etc. Thanks kindly!

Read errors again this morning. This time on all 5 drives Diagnostics attached. Going to re-assign the drives and rebuild array like previously and hopefully it will work again After stopping array and rebooting server, the devices are showing up as 'missing' and I can't unassign the slots, nor can I start the array. Any suggestions please? n3supernas-diagnostics-20230304-0801.zip

Quick update: parity check complete few minutes ago without errors. Looks all good now. Thank you!

K, will keep that in mind. Didn't know reboot clears the data needed for diag.

Oh yes, the self-test was done and didn't show any errors, yet unRaid reported *some* error. Anyway, the rebuild is in progress... another 12 hrs to go.

How to do that?

Gotcha! Thanks for the link. Will attempt this today. Rebuild has started... will take a day and a bit. Hopefully all good after that.

Thanks for the comprehensive reply! Yes, disk3 has had many CRC errors in the past. I've reseated the drive previously and its been fine. It hasn't ever been disabled or kicked out of the array before. So does this mean that I have to go into 'New Config' and re-add the 'failed' parity drive and disk3 back into the array? I've physically removed the parity drive to test it in an external enclosure and its picked up fine by a laptop. So most likely the drive is good. I don't have spare drives to rebuild onto to, so will have to do it in-place on the existing array. See my question above - this requires doing 'New Config' and re-adding the parity and disk3 drives? Thanks!

Hello, Server has been running fine for years. Recently upgraded to 6.11.5 and that has been trouble-free as well. Few minutes ago, got some alerts that one of the parity drives and one data drive has an error. But there's no details about the error. Both drives show disabled. SMART self-test on the parity drive comes back with no errors. Performed server reboot and problem is still there. Diagnostics attached. Thanks for your help!

Any update on this?

Seeing the same thing for draw.io as well. Has the repo name changed? Mine is jgraph/drawio

Updated the Transmission_VPN:latest container today and now it won't start! Seems to be in a boot loop... the log window won't stay open long enough to see what the problem is. (unRaid 6.1.1) Any suggestions?

I think its because of this setting in the Transmission_VPN docker - LOCAL_NETWORK. It most likely has your LAN segment only and not VPN segment. What I've done is install Firefox docker and use that to access the Transmission webUI. That way, everything is local to the server.

Hi all, is there a quick/easy way to backup the flash drive before performing upgrade? Thanks!

No, not in the UI. Deleting the file seems to have worked. Thanks

Got it fixed now. Was missing a port forward rule. Somehow it was missing after a recent fw upgrade. Another question: how to remove this cert from the renew list? The 'vault' service doesn't exist anymore.

Looks like there may be an issue on the fw blocking inbound port 80. All CL IPs are allowed inbound but still being blocked... investigating this

DNS record looks good, server is reachable as well when browsing to rss.domain.com So something specifically tied to this challenge/response. Any ideas on what else I can look at? Do I need particular port forwarding, etc?

I see. Seems something amiss on my side then... firewall, server, IP/DNS... hmmm Thanks for finding this!

Hi, thanks for the quick reply. So attempted the dry-run command and here's the output: (replaced my domain name with 'domain')

Hello, need help to figure out problem with renewing certificates. Below are the error messages: I'm not too familiar with how renewals occur or what's needed to fix this. It was working few months ago, but that doesn't really help for now. What should I look at for troubleshooting? Thanks

No idea what Shinobi is... maybe there's been an update to Transmission_VPN container. I removed it and haven't tried it for a few weeks.

Another question... I picked up a Dell R720 server. This has an internal USB port. Can this be used for booting the unRaid USB stick?

Updated Transmission_VPN container today and now its in a boot loop. Can't see the log because the log window closes immediately due to the restart. How can I figure out what's causing the issue? Or is there way to rollback to previous version? Was working fine until the upgrade. Thanks