Hey,

 

I would like to install Unraid on a Dell PowerEdge T310 from around 2010 with 8GB  EEC DDR3 RAM (800 MHz). When I boot from the stick, I get the following error message: "Failed to allocate memory for kernel command line, bailing out Booting kernel fails: Bad file number.".

What can I do to work around this problem? I am not very familiar with the server unfortunately.

 

Greetings

IIRC It's a known issue with those servers when booting UEFI, it should work if you boot CSM.

Where can I set this? I can't find anything under F2 in the server settings.

Can't help with that, never had a Dell server, there should be a BIOS option for that.

I have now only found one option in the BIOS settings where I can switch between UEFI and BIOS for the boot - is that it? But then when I switch to BIOS, it can not boot the stick at all. No bootable Device found.

Edited January 26, 20233 yr by Dsimon24

Yes, should be that, might need then to choose the boot devices for that mode.

I can select the stick as an option there, but it still can't boot. Strange. 

How did you create the flash drive? If it was manually did you run make_bootable.bat as admin? It's not needed for UEFI boot but it won't boot CSM without running it.

I would have to check this again. I had previously used the stick in another Unraid server and now want to move to new hardware. But I had originally created the stick with the Unraid Stick Tool. 

If it was created with the USB tool it should be OK, but it might be worth testing or running make_bootable again to confirm.