Ok so I was having trouble with my system booting.  It absolutely would not post.  So I swapped out my motherboard, cpu, and ram.  After changing the hardware when I boot unraid up it will not start the array and says that one of my hard drives is missing.  I've tried swapping cables around and everything to make sure it's not a cable issue.  Nothing I do brings the missing drive back.  In the process of changing hardware, I also discovered that my flash drive was bad so I copied my license over to a new flash drive.  Thankfully I had a backup.

 

Is there something wrong with my setup or did one of my drives get wrecked when the motherboard went down?  Any help would be greatly appreciated because I have no idea what to do from here!  Is there something I can do to check the drive and make sure the drive itself went bad?

 

Also one other problem, the system still won't boot on it's own.  It will post, and then I get a black screen.  If I quick go to bios on boot and then exit bios right away then it boots just fine. 

 

This is on Unraid 6.9.0

 

*edit*

 

A little more info.  I have a parity drive of 12 tb.  I have an array of 2 drives.  One is 600 GB and the other is 12 tb.  It was the 12 tb one from the array that failed.  So the parity drive appears to still be good and working.

Edited March 19, 20215 yr by hahler2

You should attach your diagnostics to your next post so people can look at your system details and propose actions.

Tools / Diagnostics.

Sounds good. I’m at work but when I get home I will do that.  

Here is the diagnostic zip file.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated!  I have a new hard drive on order as I'm pretty sure that's what the problem is.  But if we can restore this one it would be awesome.

 

hahler-diagnostics-20210319-1900.zip

Edited March 20, 20215 yr by hahler2

Check if the missing drive is detected in the BIOS, if not it will never be detected by Unraid.

It is definitely not in the bios.  Shoot.  Killed a drive some how.  Thank god for parity.  I've never replaced a drive in Unraid before but I'm assuming that it's not too hard and that a quick google search will get me lots of guides.

 

So any ideas why my system won't boot properly?  If I just turn it on and let it do it's thing it will post, and then gives me a black screen and nothing happens.  If I go to bios and then immediately exit bios it boot right up just like it's supposed to.  It's very annoying.  I've doubled checked that it's set to boot from the flash drive.  I even removed all the other options just to be safe and still have that problem.

2 hours ago, hahler2 said:

So any ideas why my system won't boot properly?

Not really, bit by the description it looks like a hardware issue.

I don't believe it to be a hardware issue.  It was doing the same thing before I switched motherboard, cpu, and ram.  I think it has to be something in the unraid setup itself.  I don't have UEFI boot enabled in Unraid.  Could that be it?

12 hours ago, hahler2 said:

Could that be it?

It shouldn't, but you can try enabling it.

Boot issue I believe is solved.  It seems like it was being caused by fast boot options being enabled in bios.  Disabled those and it seems to be working now.