ItsRaining Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 (edited) Good morning, I have been wrapping my brain around trying to install my unraid server on a new USB drive. This all started when I received an error on my unraid dashboard (first image). After some research I concluded that the flash drive was faulty. I purchased a Samsung BAR Plus after watching some reviews on which USB to use. Then the headaches started. I first grabbed a flash backup from my running unraid server. I shut it down and using the creation tool ran the ZIP file on my new USB with UEFI enabled. However, when I installed this stick and ran it in Unraid at first it would fail to post only blinking after the motherboard screen. Since restarting and trying again I continue to get a 169 address. I understand it is failing to acquire an address from DHCP. However, when I type ifconfig. The proper IP address shows up under br0 and nothing shows under eth0. Please know that I have many other computers on the network obtaining IP addresses perfectly fine. The server also had the correct IP address before the flash drive change. I have attempted the following: 1. Change out the ethernet cable and ports on both ends. 2. Use a third different flash drive. 3. Use the old flash drive again (just goes to a blinking post screen after the motherboard screen) 4. Use the unraid flash creator with the backup zip file (makes it to the Unraid OS screen with 5 second timer and repeats in a loop fails to boot) 5. Use the Unraid Flash Creator with a fresh Stable release. This loads correctly but gives me a 169 ipv4 address. ifconfig shows the correct 192 address under br0 and I am able to access the UI. However, I cannot successful get my pro.key to install. There is only a Purchase and Trial buttons. I am extremely afraid I just lost all my data if I have to start with a new Unraid OS. The data is on the HDDs, but the array is no longer available with the USB drive issues I am having. I have no idea how or where to pull the systemlogs from the CLI and I see no logs file on the flash drive. Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aurous Master CPU: AMD 3600X RAM: Tridentz Royal 3600 mhz Edited August 24, 2021 by ItsRaining Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Your data should not be at risk but it is difficult to help with this little information. Your diagnostics might give us a clue ? Go to Tools / Diagnostics and attach the file zip to your next post. While this is probably not related to your network access issues, you should look at that FAQ entry : Quote Link to comment
ItsRaining Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 (edited) I have done another fresh install so I can get to the GUI and get the diagnostics. This is not my old zip file. If I try to use my old zip backup I fail to access the GUI. Here is the zip you requested. tower-diagnostics-20210824-0650.zip I see the network working. Maybe its my network settings? I can post those if requested. Also, help replacing my key would be appreciated. Do I need to reach out to Unraid support to get a link? There is no replace key button. Edited August 24, 2021 by ItsRaining Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 57 minutes ago, ItsRaining said: Also, help replacing my key would be appreciated. Do I need to reach out to Unraid support to get a link? There is no replace key button. Have you put your old .key file into the 'config' folder? This is needed to initiate the licence transfer process. Quote Link to comment
ItsRaining Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 Thank you for the information to get the registration key to work. I cannot believe I missed such a simple step. I successfully registered my new USB. Using a new install of Unraid seems to have broken all my dockers and VMs but I will gladly remake them. All my data is still available and that is what I care about most. I still am not sure if I have resolved the GUI issue when I restart. I am running a parity check and once finished I will try restarting the server. Hopefully the ipv4 registers. Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Your docker templates are on the old flash drive. You could try to recover them to facilitate the reinstall. Quote Link to comment
ItsRaining Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 All the config folders are there. I am just reinstalling the images and setting the environment variables. So its no big deal. Quote Link to comment
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