December 3, 20214 yr Hi, This morning when rebooting my server it seems that my USB stick is broken. UEFI doesn't find it as a bootable device and if i plug it into a windows laptop it says that i need to format the drive. First, it seems that i dont have a backup of the device, thought i had but cant find it. So how many problems can i expect when booting up with a clean usb? second, how "hard" is it to replace the usb sticks? i have another quite old drive home, and i want my server up asap. so thinking of using that drive now and replace it with a new drive soon.
December 3, 20214 yr Author I'm preparing for my new drive by reading https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Changing_The_Flash_Device The docs say this: Quote In such a case the following steps can help you get your array drives back without data loss: Create a fresh install of the Unraid flash drive as shown earlier. Edit the file config/disk.cfg on the flash drive and if necessary change the startArray="yes" entry to startArray="no" This is to avoid any accidents that might result in a data drive getting over-written with parity information. The thing is, in my newly created usb drive I have no disk.cfg in the config folder. So shall I create it or will my array not start at boot since the file is missing? Edited December 3, 20214 yr by lusitopp
December 4, 20214 yr Author No input at this at all? well, lets hope its plug'n'pray then. im a little bit worried about configuration for macvlan, shares, users and password, and ofcourse the disk.cfg that shall be edited that dont exist.
December 4, 20214 yr Community Expert 17 hours ago, lusitopp said: So shall I create it or will my array not start at boot since the file is missing? This, there won't be any assigned devices, so array won't start.
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