Successfully managed to boot Unraid from usb.

 

Typed in root to login, but when I type in ifconfig nothing happens. Does not bring up IP info. ifconfig eth0 brings up info on the card though.

 

DHCP is working.

 

Does that mean that unraid isn't compatible with the built in network card? Using MSI K7N2 MB Model: MS-6570. Nforce 2 chipset.

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7N2_Delta-L

 

Thanks

Some of the more experienced folks on here, might disagree.  But I would say yes.  I don't have dhcp running on my home network, so I had to edit the network.cfg file manually.  Try that.  Maybe there is just a problem with DHCP, your NIC and unraid.  Maybe the NIC would work if you manually assigned an address. 

Did you set the Flash volume label to UNRAID ?

I'm having the same problem 

Purchased new GigaByte EP35-DS3R to run UnRaid.

Symptom is I get the login prompt, then ifconfig -a does not report an IP addr.  A ping of an address in my network results in a "Network Not Reachable" message.

I tried an actual Intel PCI giggbit card, but had the same results.

DHCP is working on the home network, all other puters in house work ok, I can release and renew without a problem.

 

An oddness is that one of the last messages displayed is "/etc/rcd.0/init.d: /boot/config/network.cfg" not found.  I've missplet the /etc/rc.x part in this msg, but the /boot/config/network.cfg part is correct.

 

It's like the system can't locate the network.cfg file that specifies dhcp.

 

Have tried with setting the ip,netmask, etc in the file, but same result - thinking about this its like the file is not found.

 

The USB key volume label is UNRAID

USB key is 1GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro

 

Any pointers would be appreciated, I'm about to give up.

Others are using that board, without issue, and many use that flash.  One big problem with the Sandisk flash drives is you have to remove the U3 software and partition on it.  See my sig for some tips on USB drive prepping.  One small possibility, make sure the flash label is exactly 6 upper case letters, no hidden space after it.  Capture a syslog (see my sig), and let us look, perhaps someone else will have an idea.

 

Thanks a lot for the quick reply, but alas, still not working.

 

I've double checked that the volume label is UNRAID - six chars only.  reset it to "foo", then reset back to UNRAID

I've tried capturing syslog and dmesg by copying them to /boot - I can see them there while in the cmd prompt, but they are not there after shutdown. 

The troubleshooting instuctions mention to run "stop", some minor messages are output - but I think normal as this is a new install and no drives are configured.

The "powerdown" command was not found - I did a find from /, and it was not located; so used shutdown -h now.

 

When look at USB key under windows the syslog.txt and dmesg.text files are missing.

 

I bought the gigabyte board because I've read other members used it (and the 8 sata ports).  The only change made to the bios was to enable AHCI

FWIW I'm using UNRAID 4.2.4

 

I clearly get a command prompt, and ifconfig shows me the MAC address, but no IP address.

 

The error message is from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf - its trying to use /boot/config/network.cfg as input.

 

Any pointers / assistance would be appreciated - I'm linux handy, thought about extracting contents of bzroot/bzimage and hardcoding values in rc.inet1.conf; but that just really seems like the wrong hammer for the problem.

 

 

 

FYI more info:  It seems like its a USB key issue.  After changing the key volume label to foo, then back to UNRAID, the boot message now includes a line:

Mounting non-root local filesystems:

mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID does not exist

 

then the error message about missiing /boot/config/network.cfg - understandable as the file system did not mount.

 

So I'm off to reformat USB and/or try another key.

Will post back on final resolution...

 

Thanks a lot for the quick reply, but alas, still not working.

 

I've double checked that the volume label is UNRAID - six chars only.  reset it to "foo", then reset back to UNRAID

I've tried capturing syslog and dmesg by copying them to /boot - I can see them there while in the cmd prompt, but they are not there after shutdown. 

The troubleshooting instuctions mention to run "stop", some minor messages are output - but I think normal as this is a new install and no drives are configured.

There flash drive is not mounted at /boot, it is simply an empty directory until the filesystem is mounted on it, therefore any files you copy to it are in memory only, since the flash drive did not get mounted as expected.

The "powerdown" command was not found - I did a find from /, and it was not located; so used shutdown -h now.

Probably because the command is poweroff, not powerdown.  It is in /sbin.

When look at USB key under windows the syslog.txt and dmesg.text files are missing.

You need to enable viewing of both hidden and system files in windows explorer to see them.

I bought the gigabyte board because I've read other members used it (and the 8 sata ports).  The only change made to the bios was to enable AHCI

FWIW I'm using UNRAID 4.2.4

The 4.3-beta6 is very stable.  You should use it, but it is not why your flash drive is not getting mounted..

I clearly get a command prompt, and ifconfig shows me the MAC address, but no IP address.

 

The error message is from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf - its trying to use /boot/config/network.cfg as input.

Since the flash drive was not mounted, the files it has are not where they are expected.  Now we need to figure out why the drive was not mounted.

Any pointers / assistance would be appreciated - I'm linux handy, thought about extracting contents of bzroot/bzimage and hardcoding values in rc.inet1.conf; but that just really seems like the wrong hammer for the problem.

It still would not work.. you might get an IP address, but other files are critical to exist for unRAId to function.  If the flash drive includes U3 software, it will need to be removed using a U3 utility... a reformat does not do it.

 

Try:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-label

 

It should look like this:

root@Tower:~# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May  5 18:59 UNRAID -> ../../sda1

 

If the drive label is not present, unRAID will not be able to find it.  If it is, it might be a "slow" flash drive and not there when unRAID was looking for it.

 

The syslog will give other clues, but it is hard to capture it when you can't telnet to the server or use the flash drive.  Look in it for signs of an interrupt conflict. That would be another cause for the flash drive to go offline. (an attempt to read it fails)