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So I haven't had a server the last year or so, because of pandemics and needing the mobo and cpu for other things, so I'm just setting things up again. First, booting into GUI mode on 6,8.x (whatever was current Feb 2020) I updated the various plugins, then pre cleared the four drives I intended to use, in part to check they were OK. During the pre clear I got the notification to update to 6.9.2 which I did when the pre clear was finished. I rebooted to the mode selection panel - first to normal GUI mode - top left flashing cursor, then to GUI mode, no plugins, same result. Since it might be my set up in UEFI BIOS I should explain what and why I've configured things as I have as I'm possibly causing the problem, though obviously this worked fine with the earlier unRAID version: I have an Nvidia 1050 in the first PCIe slot but as I intended to pass that through to a VM or for transcoding I had selected in BIOS to boot to the iGPU (i5 4690k) - is that right or should I be using the dGPU for the GUI mode with this version? Any other 'don'ts' regarding UEFI BIOS set up? The only reference specific to unRAID I found was deprecated info. for e.g. Above 4G decoding yes/no? Other than that I obviously have VT-d turned on and XMP enabled but those were fine when booting into POP-OS and Solus Budgie Obviously I can't offer any logs as I don't get that far. Should I try removing the boot flash drive and reinstalling fresh on another computer? Is there anything I should be typing in at the flashing cursor? It seems to go through all the correct boot sequences until that point, from what little I understand of verbose boot sequences. Thanks in advance

Is this still good for 6.8.3 ? Even though I've been using Macs since '92 I've never been a huge fan of Time Machine, preferring apps like Super Duper and more recently Carbon Copy Cloner. Is CCC a viable option with unRAID? And do most of the guidelines for Time Machine in the link above apply to working with CCC? cheers

I've no idea if this is helpful, but one of the SpaceInvader videos goes into essential plugins and one of these is Nerd which installs Perl which allows you to monitor coretemps etc. I'm totally out of my depth and just 'do as I'm told by those who know more' with this kind of thing . . . but maybe it's something to investigate?