current server has been up and running for over 3 years without any major issues. Currently running 6.9.1

 

have recently moved and this means new internet provider etc so new IP adresses required. also just before the move had a couple of power cuts.

 

thought my server was completely screwed when I first tried starting it up as couldnt even boot properly, however after removing my 2 LSI 9201-8i SAS Connectors as all lights were dead and reconnecting 9 drives to the server via SATA cables all of which are being seen in BIOS, I find that UNRAID will not boot successfully.

 

found a few older posts relating to the "dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID not found!" and the general concensus was that the USB was screwed and needed to be reinstalled. I have copied the entire contents of the USB drive before continuing. rebuilt the USB using the Limetech USB Creator, 6.9.1, copied my config folder back to it and booted up, I am still seeing the "dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID not found!" error, this of course means that I dont get any networking created so I am limited to the GUI locally.

 

any suggestions on what else I can do to get back on my feet again?

 

thanks in advance for any assistance

Sounds like you flash volume name is incorrect. What do you get from.

 

ls -l /dev/disk/by-label

 

 

e.g. this is from my system.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 26 07:51 New\\x20Volume -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 26 07:51 UNRAID -> ../../sdd1

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 26 12:26 UNRAID -> ../../sda1

That looks correct.

 

Are you binding any devices to VFIO? PCIe IDs may of changed  and now picking up the USB controller is the only other thing I can think of.

 

 

not intentionally bindng anything, how can I see?

if you are referring to network port binding then I do have 5 ports on my motherboard, though I have only ever used 1

 

its been so long since I have had any issues I have no idea where to look

If you click on the flash drive from the main tab it may be in the syslinx config.

 

something like vfio-pci.ids=xxxx:xxxx

 

But normally would only be used if you are say passing GPU to a VM or similar.

 

Or it may be in a file on the boot drive in config dir.

 

root@unraid:/boot/config# cat vfio-pci.cfg 
BIND=83:00.0 83:00.1 83:00.2 83:00.3

2 hours ago, Markyb0y said:

limited to the GUI locally.

From the command prompt,

 

diagnostics

 

They'll be saved onto the flash drive (logs folder) upload them here.

 

tower-diagnostics-20210426-1343.zip

Assuming its named correctly (UNRAID all in caps), then try a different USB controller (ie: a different port, but not the one above or below what you're using)

it was indeed named correctly, today I have tried using the USB in a seperate port as suggested and it worked as if there was never an issue.

 

any idea what would have caused this? is it now a forever broken port?

 

regardless thanks for taking the time to look through my logs and provide the assistance you always have.

such a great community