Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 So I got my crappy Frankenstein monster together. Got it to boot to USB (I was amazed I could get it to do that). But now it's stuck... This is what I see: It's been like that for 30 minutes. I thought it was supposed to dump me at a console. What am I doing wrong?
lionelhutz Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 I don't see any errors, it just appears to have hung on boot. It's still early in the booting process too. You might want to try it again. Peter
Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Author Posted August 26, 2011 Rebooted. New error. Camera battery died. Will post tomorrow.
Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Author Posted August 26, 2011 Sorry to bump, but I have no idea what to do from here. Anybody familiar with the errors displayed there?
prostuff1 Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 if the flash drive labeled as UNRAID with all caps? How did you prep the flash drive to make it bootable? Can you try another flash drive?
Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Author Posted August 26, 2011 if the flash drive labeled as UNRAID with all caps? It was a brand new flash drive, Lexar JumpDrive FireFly 8GB USB Drive. I did label it during a quick format as "UNRAID", all in caps from a Windows 7 machine. How did you prep the flash drive to make it bootable? I went step-by-step through the instructions found here: http://www.lime-technology.com/support/unraid-server-installation Step 1 Plug the Flash into your PC and re-format it using Windows: ?Open My Computer (XP) or Computer (Vista/Win7), right-click your Flash device and select Format... ?For File system, leave what Windows sets as default. ?For Volume label, enter "UNRAID" (all-caps and without the quotes). ?Select Quick Format and click Start. Step 2 Click on your Flash device (to open it) and drag the entire contents of the unRAID Server zip file to the Flash. Step 3 For Windows XP, click the file make_bootable. A DOS window will open and run the syslinux utility on the Flash. For Windows Vista or Windows 7, right-click the file make_bootable and select Run as administrator. Step 4 Once again, right-click your Flash device in My Computer or Computer and select Eject. Your Flash device is now ready to boot into unRAID Server OS. Can you try another flash drive? Not easily, but if it comes to that, I have a cheap 8GB model that I use as a toolkit which I can format.
lionelhutz Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 Have you run the memory tests. I believe when it says it can't open the root filesystem it is referring to the ram disk unRAID will run from.
Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Author Posted August 26, 2011 Hmmm.... I'm not sure. I'll pull the memory and retry if I can. Not sure if I have enough spare around here. If it's not good enough, I may have to bite the bullet and upgrade long before I can really afford to financially.
Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Author Posted August 26, 2011 Mem test freezes at a different % each time. Picture below shows it at 40%. It also froze at 14%.
Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Author Posted August 26, 2011 Hurray for crappy RAM! Found a couple of Kingston sticks in a drawer and replaced the OCZ. Ran 7 memory tests. All Successful. Booted up to the prompt. Now on to the hard stuff.
Netbug Posted August 26, 2011 Author Posted August 26, 2011 Ok. So now following the guide, I've gotten to this command: dmesg|grep SATA|grep link When I type that, nothing shows up. I'm guessing this means none of the drives are mounted. To the BIOS I go? Update: Well, now it shows the following with that command: ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) At this point, with the hardware oddities and troubles, would I be better to cut my losses and buy a new MB/CPU/RAM set? Update 2: Now I can't find the preclear_disk.sh script. Talk about biting off more than you can chew. Update 3: I'm an idiot. Shutting up for a while.
prostuff1 Posted August 27, 2011 Posted August 27, 2011 I know you want to play around with your unRAID machine, but please run memtest overnight at least. A good eight hour + stint is a good thing in this case. On all my builds I run memtest for 24(ish) hours before calling it good. A day out of my time to make sure memtest is successful saves loads of time later.
Netbug Posted August 27, 2011 Author Posted August 27, 2011 I know you want to play around with your unRAID machine, but please run memtest overnight at least. A good eight hour + stint is a good thing in this case. On all my builds I run memtest for 24(ish) hours before calling it good. A day out of my time to make sure memtest is successful saves loads of time later. Yeah. I took a step back and am doing that now. Got over-excited. Going to reassess tomorrow where I stand. Thanks for all the advice/help thus far.
lionelhutz Posted August 27, 2011 Posted August 27, 2011 I'm an idiot. Shutting up for a while. I'm assuming you figured out the preclear isn't part of the stock unRAID installation? I'm not sure about your drive issues. Do they appear on the devices page so that you can assign them to "disk" slots? If you can get it to boot and the disks can be assigned and the network adapter works then you're likely OK. Peter
Netbug Posted August 27, 2011 Author Posted August 27, 2011 I'm assuming you figured out the preclear isn't part of the stock unRAID installation? I did. I'm not sure about your drive issues. Do they appear on the devices page so that you can assign them to "disk" slots? They did. I'm concerned about the integrity/performance of this system with the older components. If you can get it to boot and the disks can be assigned and the network adapter works then you're likely OK. Yar. Debating what to do now. Gonna go mess around with getting XBMC to work on the AppleTV for the moment. Reflect and muse on the unRAIDiness.
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