Can't boot USB after restarting the server


TheClaus

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Unraid Version: 6.8.3

Motherboard: SuperMicro X8DTL-3F rev2.01

CPUs: Dual XEON L5640

 

Hi, I hope someone can help me with my issue.  So today I was noticing that my server was running the fans a bit more than normal and when I went to the Dashboard I noticed that most of the threads were running all over the place which is unusual for my server.  I checked top and saw that containerd and dockerd were using 100% of the CPU.

 

I shut down docker and then just to be safe I shut down the server.  When I powered it back on I now get this message that it can't find the bootable media and try again.  I thought my usb stick went bad so I bought another USB stick.  Tried that and same message.  Tried several USB sticks all with the same message.  Tried several different USB ports on the motherboard and same message.  I even tried a Ubuntu Live USB and it wouldn't boot and gave me the same message.

 

At this point I am thinking my motherboard USB ports went bad.  Now the server is older.  Dual XEONS L5640 running on a Supermicro board.  The server hardware was used when I bought it and that was several years ago.

 

I have 2 questions.

 

  1. Can I buy a USB PCI card and disable the BIOS USB and force it to use the card to boot Unraid.
  2. If I can't do that and I buy new hardware(motherboard/cpu/memory) can I just plug in the old USB stick and it boot up my configuration.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

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So I messed something up in changing all the BIOS settings and locked myself out of the BIOS because I am using a USB keyboard.  I am going to clear CMOS tonight which should reset all the BIOS settings and hopefully get myself back into the BIOS.  Once that is done I will go through and see if the settings you said to check are correct.

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Update: I decided to pull out all my drives(thank god for Rosewill's hot swap server chassis) and just boot up.  Now I can boot the USB drive.  I am thinking it might be a PSU issue but have a question.  Could I be drawing too much power from the drives?  I have 12 drives in the server and it was running fine before.  It is as barebones as I can get it.  12 drives and 1 SAS card and a USB keyboard and USB thumb stick connected to a monitor using the onboard VGA port.

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I have 6 drives attached to the SATA ports on the motherboard and then 6 drives are attached to a PCI SAS card.  I have disabled the onboard SAS in the BIOS.  Do you have a link to what that person said?  Would like to read more up on it.  I could take 2 drives off of the SATA ports on the motherboard and plug them into the SAS card but just seems odd that everything was working great and now it isn't.

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15 minutes ago, TheClaus said:

Do you have a link to what that person said?

Haven't

 

If 6 disks detect on BIOS AHCI ( HBA Oprom disable ), 6 shouldn't trigger the bug.

I agree you can try plug-back HBA and unplug the on-board disk to trouble shoot step by step.

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