October 25, 20223 yr Hey! Been trying to run Unraid 6.11.1 on an Asus P5E-VM DO motherboard with a Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU and 4 Gb of RAM, using the motherboard's video output. The system starts booting normally, but then at some point the screen goes black and everything stops. No network either - it doesn't get an IP from my DHCP. The machine is OK, has a Win 7 instance there. The flash drive is ok, works on another machine - boots to CLI, at least. The flash drive is fresh, no Unraid keys, no trial mode configured. Here I made a video of the boot sequence. Reminding you, that the bars mean no signal but a black screen means that there is a signal (the capture card detects something), but the signal is blank. Edited October 28, 20223 yr by Rive
October 26, 20223 yr Author Ok, it was the integrated graphics adapter Intel GMA 3100 - I threw in a GT 210 card, and the system booted just fine. But that shouldn't have been a problem - this forum has some old messages confirming old versions of Unraid were working on this MB and other ones with Intel GMA 3100. Plus the problem technically stays. I don't really want a discrete card in my server just to boot it. Edited October 26, 20223 yr by Rive
October 28, 20223 yr Author On 10/26/2022 at 10:23 AM, JorgeB said: Blacklist the i915 driver so it doesn't load. And it did the trick. Just added module_blacklist=i915 to all the append lines in syslinux.cfg and it started to boot. Thank you.
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