Issue with initial boot / installation

[gstoilov]

Hello all,

 

Very first post here. I am trying to boot the unRaid 6 on my tower server for the first time but after several attempts there seems to be a persistent error. Virtualization is enabled, main BOOT drive is the USB drive.

 

I captured a video of the whole booting process as well as a screenshot of the final screen.

 

Link to the video in GDrive (too large to upload here):

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kb5B8lo5Su3h7G0xVB8zUdTg89ao_BpL/view?usp=sharing

 

Can you provide me with an assistance? If you need I will share hardware specs or any necessary info.

 

Thanks!

[trurl]

Booting UEFI or legacy (CSM)?

[gstoilov]

Booting UEFI - screen for further info.

[JorgeB]

Try booting in safe mode, if the same blacklist the i915 GPU.

[trurl]

46 minutes ago, gstoilov said:

Booting UEFI - screen for further info.

That shows you are booting Windows UEFI from another device. How are you booting the Unraid flash? 

[gstoilov]

Yes, I got Windows installed on the SSD, which I left as a second boot option after the flash with unRaid on it. Is the Windows installation problematic and to be removed completely?

 

Does that make sense and do I miss something?

[gstoilov]

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Try booting in safe mode, if the same blacklist the i915 GPU.

 

Any tips on how to do the blacklist?

 

[trurl]

How did you prepare the Unraid flash? The USB Creator allows you to specify whether to prepare the flash drive for UEFI or not. Then you have to make your BIOS boot the flash drive for UEFI or not.

[gstoilov]

11 minutes ago, trurl said:

How did you prepare the Unraid flash? The USB Creator allows you to specify whether to prepare the flash drive for UEFI or not. Then you have to make your BIOS boot the flash drive for UEFI or not.

 

Created the flash for UEFI, and made it boot for UEFI.

 

 

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, gstoilov said:

Any tips on how to do the blacklist?

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/124251-kaput/?do=findComment&comment=1134453

 

[gstoilov]

This also did not help...any other ideas? I seriously have no idea what the issue might be atm

[trurl]

Have you tried another port? USB2 ports may be more reliable for this.

[JorgeB]

Also try a different flash drive. 

[gstoilov]

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Also try a different flash drive. 

 

11 hours ago, trurl said:

Have you tried another port? USB2 ports may be more reliable for this.

 

16 hours ago, JorgeB said:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/124251-kaput/?do=findComment&comment=1134453

 

 

Tried three different flash drives, used three different USB port (both 2.0 and 3.0), blacklisted i915 both in /boot/config/modprobe.d/i915.conf and in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and still got the same results. Even removed the WIndows 10 (replaced it w/ Ubuntu).

 

Anyone got other ideas to try?

[JorgeB]

Just saw the video, in there you are attempting to boot using the GUI mode, does it boot without it? 1st boot option.

[gstoilov]

3 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Just saw the video, in there you are attempting to boot using the GUI mode, does it boot without it? 1st boot option.

 

Yes, tried both options (with / without GUI), tried also both Safe Mode options (with / without GUI), got the same result each time.

[JorgeB]

With the iGPU blacklisted does it show the am i915 lines before locking up?

[gstoilov]

2 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

With the iGPU blacklisted does it show the am i915 lines before locking up?

 

Yes, it does. Freezes on the same screen (last three rows about i915 init).

[JorgeB]

That suggests the iGPU is not blacklisted.

[gstoilov]

Did the steps as outlined in the topic you provided. Is there a way to double-check that?

[JorgeB]

Double check you're doing it correctly following the instructions linked above, you could also bind the the iGPU to VFIO-PCI, but since Unraid doesn't boot you'd need to boot with a different Linux to get the device list.

[gstoilov]

2 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Double check you're doing it correctly following the instructions linked above, you could also bind the the iGPU to VFIO-PCI, but since Unraid doesn't boot you'd need to boot with a different Linux to get the device list.

 

Any tips on how to bind them?

I got Ununtu installed already.

[JorgeB]

Type in the Ubuntu console:

lspci -nn

 

It will list all the devices, then note the vendor/device ID from the iGPU, example:

 

Then edit /syslinux/syslinux.cfg on the Unraid flash drive and add the correct vendor/device ID to the append line vfio-pci.ids=xxxx:xxxx, example

 

label Unraid OS
  menu default
  kernel /bzimage
  append initrd=/bzroot

Becomes

 

label Unraid OS
  menu default
  kernel /bzimage
  append initrd=/bzroot vfio-pci.ids=1002:515e

 

The see if the boots.

[gstoilov]

Thank you.

 

Tried it, still no result, same error.

[JorgeB]

Then it's not an iGPU problem, did you try Unraid v6.10.3 to see if there's any difference?