April 30, 201115 yr Hello all, I purchased the parts for an unraid server a while back and finally had the time to put them together but now I am running into a slight problem. I set the BIOS to boot from USB, I turned off all the other HDD's for booting, I dumbed down the video memory so it uses as little as possible, and I get stuck on the screen in the attached picture. It gets to the part where it asks me if i want to do a memtest or boot unraid and i select unraid and then get the attached screen. Parts used Case : NORCO RPC-4220 MoBo : SUPERMICRO MBD-C2SEE-O LGA 775 Intel G43 ATX Intel Motherboard OS : purchased the usb pre installed OS from Lime Tech CPU : Intel Celeron 430 Conroe-L 1.8GHz 512KB L2 Cache LGA 775 35W Single-Core RAM : Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model KVR1066D3N7/2G PSU : CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W HDD'sx4 : SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive controler cards x2 : SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Cablex2 : NORCO C-SFF8087-D SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 Internal Multilane SAS Cable cable : 3Ware CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M SFF-8087 to Discrete Forward Breakout Cable any information would be greatly appreciated.
April 30, 201115 yr Author I left it at that line and it stayed there for 10 min so I don't think its doing any processing, but maybe I'm wrong, should I need to leave it for longer than 10 min the first time it boots?
April 30, 201115 yr Author I see no syslog.txt on the usb device, I assume this means that it does not get very far into the boot sequence of unRAID.
April 30, 201115 yr Author tried resetting the bios to no avail, thank you for the advise though i also tried setting the USB to fullspeed instead of highspeed to no avail I just noticed while waiting on that screen that the network led is flashing, so maybe it is trying to connect but not sure. it just sits on that screen with no data
May 25, 201115 yr Author Turned off my unraid server last night and tried to turn it back on this morning and got the same error, what is this error? I thought I had gotten rid of it with the upgrade to 4.7, please help.
May 25, 201115 yr What BIOS settings are you using for ACPI? Did you ever try kernel parameters to resolve the problem? I'd work toward the right BIOS options but acpi=off for your loader might be a quick workaround. In case you haven't done that before, when the USB stick first boots you get to choose between unraid and memtest. Hit tab before the counter ends and you'll get to edit the "append initrd=bzroot" line for this one boot. Modify it to look like: append initrd=bzroot acpi=off Edit: Again, this will only take effect for this boot. To make it permanent you'll need to edit the original file at /boot/syslinux.cfg.
May 25, 201115 yr Author Sorry already tried replacing some of the 4.7 files with new 4.7 files and that seems to have done the trick, not quite sure what was wrong with the files that were there, but now the strange thing is i told it to stop so i could remove the usb stick and backup the files on it so i have a clean set and it is taking quite a long time to unmount the drives and some of the drives are getting a bunch of reads, what is it doing? it was only on for a few seconds how can it have stuff to do already?
May 25, 201115 yr Author have not tried memtest yet, the server ran fine for a few days, do you still think it could be the memory?
May 25, 201115 yr Author yes i was using Cache_dirs, and turned it off, but i thought i did that before it started working so i figured that was not it, do you think it is the culprit?
May 25, 201115 yr yes i was using Cache_dirs, and turned it off, but i thought i did that before it started working so i figured that was not it, do you think it is the culprit? what add-ons are you using?
May 25, 201115 yr Turned it off how? Editing your go file won't stop running processes. For that use /boot/cache_dirs -q at the command line.
May 25, 201115 yr Author from what I can tell I am using cache_dir and unmenu but then i found a line of code in the go file that i thought was part of unmenu that apparently is not cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c this looks like it is going into the packages direcotory and using some sort of autoinstall, anybody know what this line does in go?
May 25, 201115 yr Author turned it off as in shut down system took out usb and removed that section from go then put usb back in and restarted system. that should stop it right?
May 25, 201115 yr Author here is my current go data, it is working again #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & #Cache Directories /boot/cache_dirs -d 5 -m 3 -M 5 -w # Start unMENU sleep 10 /boot/unmenu/uu what was that section that i removed doing? cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c
May 25, 201115 yr Author oh and i guess as long as i have it up and running here is my syslog syslog-2011-05-24.txt
May 25, 201115 yr was that added by unmenu? Yes, that line is to install and start whatever things you have installed through unMenu package manager.
May 25, 201115 yr Author Yes, that line is to install and start whatever things you have installed through unMenu package manager. so everything in the package folder was added by unMenu should i just delete that folder for now?
May 26, 201115 yr Yes, that line is to install and start whatever things you have installed through unMenu package manager. so everything in the package folder was added by unMenu should i just delete that folder for now? you can, or if you just want to see if it is the cause of your problems, you can rename it for a test. mv /boot/packages /boot/old_packages will rename it to old_packages and since nothing is looking there, it will be as if it was not there at all.
June 9, 201115 yr Author What BIOS settings are you using for ACPI? I was using YES/AUTO/LEVEL 2 I just turned it off so now its just NO and it boots but does this mean that unRAID is no longer in control of the power for my hard drives? Do I really want ACPI off? And yes I tried a memtest, the memory seems fine
June 19, 201115 yr I am having a similar issue. After the system freezing and not shutting down it was shut down incorrectly. It will now not boot at all. It does not recognise the USB drive as valid from the unraid tower, but it looks fine when I look at it through my PC. Can someone please point me at the right forum link to look at? I have been been trawling through and this is the closest one I have found but doesn't tell me what to do from my current predicament position. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many Thanks.
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