[SOLVED] Unraid fails to boot (hangs) on an old system with Intel GMA 3100 video

[Rive]

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, 2022 by Rive

[Rive]

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, 2022 by Rive

[JorgeB]

Blacklist the i915 driver so it doesn't load.

[Rive]

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.