banterer Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 New build, with this SAS2008 controller freshly installed: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M2AC40Y/ (which may or may not need flashing, I know not). I can't get past the stoopid MPT2 BIOS, which takes over even before the system BIOS gets a look in. Then MPT2 sits there initializing forever. Occasionally it flashes up "CTRL+C to enter setup" for a microsecond, and then goes back to either initializing again, or trying to "spin up boot drive". After about an hour I managed to hit CTRL+C at just the right time. Then it sits there "invoking SAS configuration utility", again for ages. Everything seems to take, like 20 minutes. Even just reading the settings I can't seem to boot anything with the SAS card in it, so I can't even try my hand at flashing the thing. Any suggestions? Is there a way of telling it not to run the NPT2 BIOS at startup? Quote Link to comment
banterer Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 Making slow progress, managed to get as far as disabling at boot in the bios, but man it's slow. Hopefully I won't have to go into it too often! Quote Link to comment
banterer Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) Ok my real issue now seems to be Unraid starting: `Loading /bzimage... failed: No such file or directory Edited April 28, 2022 by banterer Quote Link to comment
banterer Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 If it makes a difference, I created the USB manually and used the make_bootable_mac script. I went through a whole draw full of USB flashdrives, none were recognisable by the unraid flash creator Quote Link to comment
SimonF Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 If you need UEFI you need to rename directory EFI- TO EFI Quote Link to comment
banterer Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 1 hour ago, SimonF said: If you need UEFI you need to rename directory EFI- TO EFI It is: Quote Link to comment
banterer Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) Ok, re-downloaded and flashed, now boots fine. But I can't access the web interface. Everything I've read seems to suggest it should respond on port 80, but nothing. IP shows on console correctly IP pings fine from my mac I can log on to the console and ping my mac No obvious errors on the console Tried normal boot and gui mode boot What gives? EDIT - man, every time I say something's not working, it starts working. Can access the interface now, but it seems only if I boot in GUI mode. Odd. Edited April 28, 2022 by banterer Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 1 hour ago, banterer said: I can log on to the console and ping my mac From the command prompt, diagnostics The file will get saved onto the flash drive (logs folder). Powerdown powerdown Pull the flash, and upload the zip file to your next post. Quote Link to comment
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