I've encountered a variety of issues over the last few months, some of which I've posted about here.  I've ready to rebuild from scratch at this point but I'd like some reassurance first, if anyone can help me out.  If I format a new USB drive and copy the 5.0 files over, I can boot my unraid box and connect to the webgui.  But if I try starting from my old thumbdrive, with all my config and custom files, then copy over the new files, as specified in the release notes, I keep getting a syslinux boot error.

 

As I said, I don't mind rebuilding my setup from scratch at this point--there wasn't all that much custom stuff and I have pretty basic needs--but I of course want to protect my data.  In the webgui, I can see all my drives but none are assigned.  There are no visible MBR errors the the readme says to watch for.  Is it safe to manually reassign my parity and other drives, then continue from there?  I can probably guess which one was the parity in the old array but I don't know about the order of the rest.  Is this a bad idea?

 

Thanks, Mike

I've encountered a variety of issues over the last few months, some of which I've posted about here.  I've ready to rebuild from scratch at this point but I'd like some reassurance first, if anyone can help me out.  If I format a new USB drive and copy the 5.0 files over, I can boot my unraid box and connect to the webgui.  But if I try starting from my old thumbdrive, with all my config and custom files, then copy over the new files, as specified in the release notes, I keep getting a syslinux boot error.

 

As I said, I don't mind rebuilding my setup from scratch at this point--there wasn't all that much custom stuff and I have pretty basic needs--but I of course want to protect my data.  In the webgui, I can see all my drives but none are assigned.  There are no visible MBR errors the the readme says to watch for.  Is it safe to manually reassign my parity and other drives, then continue from there?  I can probably guess which one was the parity in the old array but I don't know about the order of the rest.  Is this a bad idea?

 

Thanks, Mike

 

You can do what you want to, just make sure to get the parity drive correct.  If there is any doubt in yout mind assign every drive in the system to be a data drive.  The one that comes up as NOT formatted is parity drive.

Ah, good tip.  Thanks.

Print screen your drive configuration and scotch tape it in the inside of your case.

Even better--just saved it to my dropbox