gstoilov Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 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! Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Booting UEFI or legacy (CSM)? Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 Booting UEFI - screen for further info. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Try booting in safe mode, if the same blacklist the i915 GPU. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 1 hour ago, gstoilov said: Any tips on how to do the blacklist? https://forums.unraid.net/topic/124251-kaput/?do=findComment&comment=1134453 Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 This also did not help...any other ideas? I seriously have no idea what the issue might be atm Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Have you tried another port? USB2 ports may be more reliable for this. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Also try a different flash drive. Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Just saw the video, in there you are attempting to boot using the GUI mode, does it boot without it? 1st boot option. Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 With the iGPU blacklisted does it show the am i915 lines before locking up? Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 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). Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 That suggests the iGPU is not blacklisted. Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 Did the steps as outlined in the topic you provided. Is there a way to double-check that? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
gstoilov Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 Thank you. Tried it, still no result, same error. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Then it's not an iGPU problem, did you try Unraid v6.10.3 to see if there's any difference? Quote Link to comment
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