April 18, 201115 yr Booted up after server after it was off for 30+ hours. http://tower:8080/ loaded but had e </BODY></HTML> 0 at the bottom. Not all of the components of unMENU would load. Shares, settings, users, etc, would load, and I made sure flash could be written/read. It could. Could not view contents of flash drive from Windows Explorer or Total Commander. Flash drive was visible and I could navigate to it using \\192.168.3.175\flash via the Run window, but it's contents were empty. Went back to Main and stopped the array, then rebooted. Upon reboot, it would not respond. Putty, nor web. Hard reboot via power button. Still no response from putty, nor web. What to try next? It's just sitting there running, but not responding to any requests. v 4.7 CPU: AMD Sempron 140 Motherboard: ASUS M4A785-M Micro ATX RAM: Kingston 2GB Case: Cooler Master 590 Drive Cage(s): Icy Dock 5 in 3 Drive Cage(s): Cooler Master 4 in 3 HDD Cage - (STB-3T4-E3-GP) Drive Cage(s): Built in CM four slot cage Power Supply: CORSAIR Builder Series CMPSU-500CX 500W SATA Expansion Card(s): 2 port SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132) SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 SAS SAS RAID Controller Flash Drive: 2GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro Parity Drive: 2tb WD EARS (jumpered) Data Drives: 2x 2tb WD EADS Data Drives: 4x 2tb WD EARS Data Drives: 2x 2tb Samsung F4 Spinpoint (w/Japanese firmware) Data Drives: 3x 1tb WD FALS Cache Drive: WD2500JB Total Drive Capacity: 19tb Add Ons Used: unMENU, preclear_disk, email notifications, SABnzbd
April 18, 201115 yr Author The console is a keyboard and screen connected directly to the server. That's a new one to me. I'll try tomorrow. I'll have to hard shutdown (press and hold the power button) to move the server to a console.
April 19, 201115 yr Author Hokked the server up to a monitor and keyboard. Got the Please insert bootable media, or some similar message. For the record, here's my (what I think are relevant; please let me know if otherwise) BIOS settings: Advanced ___USB Configuration _____USB Mass Storage Device Configuration USB Mass Storage Reset Delay: 20 Sec Device #1: SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro Emulation Type: Auto Boot ___Boot Device Priority 1st Device: Removable Dev. 2nd Device: Disabled Options under 1st Device: Removable Dev., current cache disk, ATAPI CD-ROM, Disabled This happened to me before, and I don't think I adjusted anything because the settings in the BIOS looked correct. I also tried simply unplugging the USWB stick from its port, then re-inserting. No luck. Tried the other USB port and same Please insert bootable media message. What next?
April 19, 201115 yr Author I just changed the Emulation type to Forced FDD and got it to boot up. Does anyone think this setting will hold after the next reboot?
April 19, 201115 yr Very wierd. Wonder if you have a bad CMOS battery or something, loosing settings? Just shut down the array and do another reboot while you have the keyboard and monitor plugged in, then at least you will know... Shawn
April 19, 201115 yr Author Very wierd. Wonder if you have a bad CMOS battery or something, loosing settings? Just shut down the array and do another reboot while you have the keyboard and monitor plugged in, then at least you will know... Shawn That would be most upsetting! I've never had any CMOS issues in almost twenty years of computing...
April 19, 201115 yr That would be most upsetting! I've never had any CMOS issues in almost twenty years of computing... You're lucky then. I have had that happen a couple of times. Guess that is what happens when you have a system around for 6 or 7 years... But, on a new board, I wouldn't expect this either. Is the board though keeping the settings now? Seems like it was, crashed, reset itself and wouldn't boot. Now you have it booting again with the settings set. Maybe a bad BIOS.. hard to know. And you won't really, until the next time it happens unfortunately... Shawn
April 19, 201115 yr Author That would be most upsetting! I've never had any CMOS issues in almost twenty years of computing... You're lucky then. I have had that happen a couple of times. Guess that is what happens when you have a system around for 6 or 7 years... But, on a new board, I wouldn't expect this either. Is the board though keeping the settings now? Seems like it was, crashed, reset itself and wouldn't boot. Now you have it booting again with the settings set. Maybe a bad BIOS.. hard to know. And you won't really, until the next time it happens unfortunately... Shawn Everything is good now, but I'm not about to shutdown unless I have the time to troubleshoot when it's time to reboot.
April 19, 201115 yr Author Had to reboot because the eth0 output displayed 10MB/s. Again. Blargh. The reboot was fine, now showing 1000MB/s as it should be. Maybe I'll leave the thread as unsolved, because the root issue of why the previous boot device setting did not work is up in the air.
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