February 19, 201115 yr I really thought I'd get past these initial steps pretty easily... I can't seem to figure out how to get my unraid server connected to the network (or if it really is) I am using an Ethernet cable directly from my router to my unraid server. This was actually plugged into this computer (which also has a wireless adapter) and was working fine. DHCP is enabled when I typed ifconfig eth0 into the prompt it does not even show anything that says inet addr. It is not just blank it is not even there. Tried setting it up as a static IP and once I did that I refreshed my DHCP client list and it showed up as that adress but named as "null" ... I'd like to think I know the basics of networking, but that is about it. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks Jake
February 19, 201115 yr Sounds like your doing the right things. If I type in ifconfig by itself I can see the IP address in the output. Do you have two network adapters by some chance? Or is the one disabled in bios perhaps?
February 19, 201115 yr Author I might have an old one from a long time ago but idk if it works. Does anyone know what color the ethernet port on the zotac board in recommended builds glows? Mines reddish and every second or so a little green/yellow light blinks
February 19, 201115 yr Red is for errors I suspect. Get a copy of the /var/log/syslog file from the unraid machine and post it.
February 19, 201115 yr Author I might have an old one from a long time ago but idk if it works. Does anyone know what color the ethernet port on the zotac board in recommended builds glows? Mines reddish and every second or so a little green/yellow light blinks How do I get that
February 19, 201115 yr Author Why was the post deleted? Anyways if that's how you check it I'll do it when I get home and post it
February 20, 201115 yr Author When I boot unraid here is what it says: line 18: /boot/config/network.cfg: no such file or directory Line 19: /var/tmp/network.cfg: no such file or directory
February 20, 201115 yr Author Ok searched on google found this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=8305.0 guy has the same problem as me said changing the flash drive to fat32 fixed it. Tried this... No effect. Also reading my motherboard manual says for The Ethernet port: Red/lightup/blink = 10/100/1000 Mbps /link /activity Orange/lightup/blink = same thing but /transmit/receive It is definitely orange... Any ideas at all??
February 20, 201115 yr Maybe try these suggestions http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10993.msg104460#msg104460 Either the .cfg file was edited improperly, or doesn't exist at all ..
February 20, 201115 yr Author Maybe try these suggestions http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10993.msg104460#msg104460 Either the .cfg file was edited improperly, or doesn't exist at all .. well my router is set to dhcp.. It looks like it is assigning an IP to it but without a name. In my config folder I have disk go ident network share I haven't edited any of it...
February 20, 201115 yr Author Ok so I tried 4.7 and 4.6 nothing worked... tried the newest beta.... finds the network!? That works but when putting in the prompt to find the hard drives it just goes right back to root@tower:
February 20, 201115 yr Ok so I tried 4.7 and 4.6 nothing worked... tried the newest beta.... finds the network!? That works but when putting in the prompt to find the hard drives it just goes right back to root@tower: what prompt are you talking about? What command? What browser? What router? Are you using a proxy? So many questions.... so little time.
February 20, 201115 yr Author Ok so I tried 4.7 and 4.6 nothing worked... tried the newest beta.... finds the network!? That works but when putting in the prompt to find the hard drives it just goes right back to root@tower: what prompt are you talking about? What command? What browser? What router? Are you using a proxy? So many questions.... so little time. This prompt: To verify that your hard drives are detected, at the prompt type dmesg|grep SATA|grep link browser im using is google chrome but I meant from the unraid server. Router is: belkin n600 hd http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=522112 Proxy? Idk?
February 20, 201115 yr Ok so I tried 4.7 and 4.6 nothing worked... tried the newest beta.... finds the network!? That works but when putting in the prompt to find the hard drives it just goes right back to root@tower: what prompt are you talking about? What command? What browser? What router? Are you using a proxy? So many questions.... so little time. This prompt: To verify that your hard drives are detected, at the prompt type dmesg|grep SATA|grep link Same on my server. Those messages are specific to the device driver being used. On one of my servers it returns absolutely nothing, even though there are two SATA drives attached. On the other, it shows all 8 drives. Don't worry about the fact you see nothing. browser im using is google chrome but I meant from the unraid server. Router is: belkin n600 hd http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=522112 Proxy? Let's try a few other commands to see what you've installed and what it is doing. ls -l /dev/disk/by-label ls -l /boot/config ls -l /dev/disk/by-id ifconfig eth0 | grep inet ethtool eth0 | sed -n "/Speed/,/detected/p" Joe L.
February 20, 201115 yr Author What version do you suggest I do this with? 5.0? Which one are you using
February 20, 201115 yr What version do you suggest I do this with? 5.0? Which one are you using I do not suggest using Version 5 right now. It is beta and not as stable as 4.7. If this is your only server then I suggest not running it on a production system either. If you can deal with the bugs that come with a beta and are willing to help troubleshot the issues you will have then you can run 5.0b4 otherwise just stick with a stable release.
February 20, 201115 yr What version do you suggest I do this with? 5.0? Which one are you using I have an entirely different situation than you. I have two servers, complete mirrors of each other. Other than the time it would take to reload, my server running the beta could be re-populated with a full set of data in a few days by copying it over the LAN from the older server. I can accept that risk in running a beta version AND have the skills to be able to recover from just about anything it could do. You, I think, have less linux/unRAID experience. I have no idea if you have backup copies of your data. I use 4.7 on my "production" older server. I have the latest beta on the newer server. It is for testing only. It has some bugs in consistently identifying disks with the same IDs on some motherboards. If it works for you, fine, but it is NOT recommended for normal use. The 5.0-beta5 should be better, but since we have not seen it yet, who knows. The commands I asked you to run and report back with their output are not version specific. Joe L.
February 20, 201115 yr Author What version do you suggest I do this with? 5.0? Which one are you using I have an entirely different situation than you. I have two servers, complete mirrors of each other. Other than the time it would take to reload, my server running the beta could be re-populated with a full set of data in a few days by copying it over the LAN from the older server. I can accept that risk in running a beta version AND have the skills to be able to recover from just about anything it could do. You, I think, have less linux/unRAID experience. I have no idea if you have backup copies of your data. I use 4.7 on my "production" older server. I have the latest beta on the newer server. It is for testing only. It has some bugs in consistently identifying disks with the same IDs on some motherboards. If it works for you, fine, but it is NOT recommended for normal use. The 5.0-beta5 should be better, but since we have not seen it yet, who knows. The commands I asked you to run and report back with their output are not version specific. Joe L. Yeah I didn't want to use the beta. This is my first linux/unraid system so I don't know much about it at all. I am putting in those commands where do you find the log so I can just copy and post it here?
February 20, 201115 yr Author Basically it is ls -l /dev/disk/by-label file or directory not found ls -l /boot/config file or directory not found ls -l /dev/disk/by-id this is the one that has a bunch of stuff I don't want to type out. Looks like it just detects my HDD and flash drive ifconfig eth0 | grep inet does not do anything ethtool eth0 | sed -n "/Speed/,/detected/p" Says: Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 3 Transceiver: external Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on : g Wak-on: d link detected: yes
February 20, 201115 yr What version do you suggest I do this with? 5.0? Which one are you using I have an entirely different situation than you. I have two servers, complete mirrors of each other. Other than the time it would take to reload, my server running the beta could be re-populated with a full set of data in a few days by copying it over the LAN from the older server. I can accept that risk in running a beta version AND have the skills to be able to recover from just about anything it could do. You, I think, have less linux/unRAID experience. I have no idea if you have backup copies of your data. I use 4.7 on my "production" older server. I have the latest beta on the newer server. It is for testing only. It has some bugs in consistently identifying disks with the same IDs on some motherboards. If it works for you, fine, but it is NOT recommended for normal use. The 5.0-beta5 should be better, but since we have not seen it yet, who knows. The commands I asked you to run and report back with their output are not version specific. Joe L. Yeah I didn't want to use the beta. This is my first linux/unraid system so I don't know much about it at all. I am putting in those commands where do you find the log so I can just copy and post it here? There is no "log" unless you re-direct the output of those commands to a file. For now, I have no idea if you have anywhere you can write to. For most of the commands the output is only a few lines. you can hand transcribe. You can try adding "| tee -a /boot/commands.txt" to the end of all the commands I gave. If you have a flash drive properly mounted then you would end up with the contents of all the commands in a file at the root of your flash drive. The commands would then look like this: ls -l /dev/disk/by-label | tee -a /boot/commands.txt ls -l /boot/config | tee -a /boot/commands.txt ls -l /dev/disk/by-id | tee -a /boot/commands.txt ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | tee -a /boot/commands.txt ethtool eth0 | sed -n "/Speed/,/detected/p" | tee -a /boot/commands.txt
February 20, 201115 yr Basically it is ls -l /dev/disk/by-label file or directory not found ls -l /boot/config file or directory not found ls -l /dev/disk/by-id this is the one that has a bunch of stuff I don't want to type out. Looks like it just detects my HDD and flash drive ifconfig eth0 | grep inet does not do anything ethtool eth0 | sed -n "/Speed/,/detected/p" Says: Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 3 Transceiver: external Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on : g Wak-on: d link detected: yes All that indicates you did not set the volume label on the flash drive to UNRAID. since the volume label was not set, it could not be identified, and therefore could not be mounted, and the "config" folder is not at /boot, and the network.cfg file not there, and the notwork not established since its configuration file not present. The very first command should have output looking something like this: ls -l /dev/disk/by-label total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-01-21 11:21 UNRAID -> ../../sda1 Until you properly set the volume label, nothing else will work. Joe L.
February 20, 201115 yr Author How do I set it then? I labeled it as UNRAID And the network.cfg is in there... I did the exact same steps for The beta when I tried it as 4.7. The beta will find the network. Not really sure what I am doing wrong.
February 20, 201115 yr How do I set it then? I labeled it as UNRAID And the network.cfg is in there... I did the exact same steps for The beta when I tried it as 4.7. The beta will find the network. Not really sure what I am doing wrong. Put the flash drive back in your window's PC, right click on it, open up the "properties" set the volume name. Then do nothing else. Do not format it or reload the software. It is already loaded with the software. You just need to "safely eject it" move it back to the unRAID server and reboot it.
February 20, 201115 yr Author How do I set it then? I labeled it as UNRAID And the network.cfg is in there... I did the exact same steps for The beta when I tried it as 4.7. The beta will find the network. Not really sure what I am doing wrong. Put the flash drive back in your window's PC, right click on it, open up the "properties" set the volume name. Then do nothing else. Do not format it or reload the software. It is already loaded with the software. You just need to "safely eject it" move it back to the unRAID server and reboot it. Did this and it was already labeled UNRAID ...but renamed it anyways and did as you said. Still did not help
February 20, 201115 yr Author Alright tried it on a newer flash drive I had...works now. Did the exact same steps as the other flash drive though.
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