June 12, 20233 yr Got everything installed and setup. Some minor things not showing up right, so I rebooted the machine. Fresh install , now just sitting at a flashing cursor, won't boot. This is not starting at all well. I have a paid license. Not impressed. Not to mention the captcha just to post this message is OUT OF CONTROL. Sheesh people. The Unraid system looks so good, then to be bogged down with Captcha, then not booting. Not a good start. Edited June 12, 20233 yr by SH Development Precision or language.
June 12, 20233 yr 58 minutes ago, SH Development said: Not to mention the captcha just to post this message is OUT OF CONTROL That is only required for the first few posts to validate you are a human. There have been spambot problems in the past in these forums. 58 minutes ago, SH Development said: Fresh install , now just sitting at a flashing cursor, Sometimes, this indicates your system wants to boot UEFI instead of BIOS. Renaming the EFI- folder on the Unraid flash drive to EFI (remove the - character at the end) addresses that. However, if it booted fine and now does not want to boot this may not be the issue unless you recently updated the BIOS/UEFI in your system. Edited June 12, 20233 yr by Hoopster
June 12, 20233 yr Author Quote 3 minutes ago, Hoopster said: Sometimes, this indicates your system wants to boot UEFI instead of BIOS. Renaming the EFI- folder on the Unraid flash drive to EFI (remove the - character at the end) addresses that. However, if it booted fine and now does not want to boot this may not be the issue unless you recently updated the BIOS/UEFI in your system. I did NOT change anything. In fact, I had rebooted about 4 times before with no problems. This time, flashing cursor. I really hate inconsistent behavior like this. I checked the "EFI" folder on the flash disk. It is in fact named only "EFI".
June 12, 20233 yr Author I should also note that it no longer comes up asking me to boot with UnRaid or UnRaid GUI, which it used to do. GRUB corrupted somehow?
June 12, 20233 yr Author 13 minutes ago, Hoopster said: That is only required for the few few posts to validate you are a human. There have been spambot problems in the past in these forums. This should not apply to paid licensees.
June 12, 20233 yr Community Expert 10 hours ago, SH Development said: I should also note that it no longer comes up asking me to boot with UnRaid or UnRaid GUI, which it used to do. GRUB corrupted somehow? Have you tried plugging the flash drive in another machine? You don't need to boot to Unraid, just to check if the boot menu come up. If it is a Windows machine, you can also run a chkdsk on it, to confirm the file system is not corrupt/damaged. 10 hours ago, SH Development said: 10 hours ago, Hoopster said: That is only required for the few few posts to validate you are a human. There have been spambot problems in the past in these forums. This should not apply to paid licensees. There is not any connection between the Unraid software and this forum. Would you want there to be? I don't believe I (or many others) would wish for that. This is why many people selfhost, to not have these connections between their data and the Internet. Also remember that support on this forum does not come from Limetech, but from Unraid users who help people without compensation.
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