December 8, 20232 yr I just finished putting together my new server, thought I would try out unraid. After a day of memory tests, I tried to boot into unraid. I get the following line: "AES CTR mode by8 optimization enabled" (would attach an image, but doesn't look possible without uploading it somewhere) Then nothing. Tried with plugins, without, with gui and without, all the same. I looked in the bios if this was some sort of option I can toggle or anything like that, but didn't see it. Please help.
December 8, 20232 yr Community Expert https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/troubleshooting/#boot-issues https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/getting-started/manual-install-method/
December 8, 20232 yr Community Expert Please don't post in multiple threads about the same problem. It makes it impossible to coordinate responses. I have locked your other thread.
December 8, 20232 yr Author I didn't mean to post multiple times, but the first time after my first login was different in the forums and didn't allow me to add images and then didn't show me it was added or anything. When i left the forums and came back things were different and I posted cause I couldn't find the first one and didn't know where to look or anything. Can you unlock the other one and lock this one? The other one has the image of the output.
December 8, 20232 yr Author 11 minutes ago, trurl said: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/troubleshooting/#boot-issues https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/getting-started/manual-install-method/ Already went through the boot issues and tried USB 2 and 3, and not sure how manual would change anything as it is reading and running off the USB drive.
December 8, 20232 yr Community Expert There are limitations until your first post is approved since we get a lot of spammers. This thread is where the replies are, so I will leave this one unlocked. I doubt that image in the other thread will be useful, but here is a link to it:
December 8, 20232 yr Community Expert 5 minutes ago, Lixx3r said: couldn't find the first one and didn't know where to look You can get to your post history by clicking on your username
December 8, 20232 yr Community Expert 4 minutes ago, Lixx3r said: not sure how manual would change anything It would at least be another attempt in case something went wrong with preparing the flash drive.
December 8, 20232 yr Author 19 minutes ago, trurl said: It would at least be another attempt in case something went wrong with preparing the flash drive. I will try it tomorrow and report here.
December 8, 20232 yr Author 37 minutes ago, trurl said: It would at least be another attempt in case something went wrong with preparing the flash drive. Well I felt like getting this server up so I can transfer files overnight... Redoing the USB manually did not help. Same spot. The code is not available somewhere right? I would like to look at what it tries to do after that point so I can see whats going on. Is there someone that can check that?
December 8, 20232 yr Author I tried a different USB drive... same. I am guessing it is time to install something else eh?
December 9, 20232 yr Community Expert See if the flash drive boots on another PC, that would confirm if it or the server is the problem.
December 9, 20232 yr Author 7 hours ago, JorgeB said: See if the flash drive boots on another PC, that would confirm if it or the server is the problem. Works in my other PC. Strangely though, not the front USB, just the back ones. Tried the back USB on the other system and same as before and freezes... with the change of where it freezes is different. I did change some stuff in the bios (turned secure boot off to see) Edited December 9, 20232 yr by Lixx3r made something more clear
December 9, 20232 yr Author Also to add to this, I was able to boot and install the following OSs off of usb: Pop OS, Ubuntu Server, TrueNAS... all without issues... What is going on here?
December 10, 20232 yr Community Expert 18 hours ago, Lixx3r said: Works in my other PC. That suggests some compatibility issue with the hardware you can try an older release, or newer one when available.
December 10, 20232 yr Author 5 hours ago, JorgeB said: That suggests some compatibility issue with the hardware you can try an older release, or newer one when available. Thanks, trueNAS scale installed without issue. As much as I wanted to use unraid, I guess this makes my choice. Glad I didn't pre-buy it during the black friday sale. lol Thanks for your help guys.
December 16, 20232 yr @Lixx3r @trurl @JorgeB I've been fighting this same issue for a few days now, pulling out what little bit of hair I have left. But in my case I was able to work around it. In my case, I am doing a new Unraid build, getting ready for the 6.13 BETA to start as I want to do a massive all flash array on ZFS with bifurcated cards and ssds, so I'm building a new Threadripper based system with a 5955WX and currently an AsRock Rack WRX80D8-2T board (though I have tested a few boards with the same issue lately). Come to find out, all the boards I have been testing with have an onboard BMC/IPMI interface with the AST2500 built in VGA. I had to plug in a standalone VGA as my VGA to HDMI adapter was seemingly not working and I needed to see what post was telling me. While display was correctly routing through my GTX 1030 until unraid started loading the drivers for the BMC. Soon after it seemed to "freeze" at "AES CTR mode by8 optimization enabled". What I am thinking may be happening is unraid loads the drivers for the onboard BMC and then routes output to that, leaving the session I am watching stale, as if the system froze. I ended up disabling onboard VGA in the bios, and what do you know, booting without issue. Just wanted to chime in for someone else having a similar issue. Edited December 16, 20232 yr by cybrnook
December 16, 20232 yr Community Expert 9 hours ago, cybrnook said: What I am thinking may be happening is unraid loads the drivers for the onboard BMC and then routes output to that, leaving the session I am watching stale, as if the system froze. I ended up disabling onboard VGA in the bios, and what do you know, booting without issue. Yes, that can happen when there are multiple GPUs, you can also blacklist the AST driver so that it's not loaded by Unraid: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/release-notes/6.10.0#linux-kernel
December 16, 20232 yr 8 hours ago, JorgeB said: Yes, that can happen when there are multiple GPUs, you can also blacklist the AST driver so that it's not loaded by Unraid: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/release-notes/6.10.0#linux-kernel Yep, this also did the trick (blacklisting ast). Let me boot into unraid while still using the onboard VGA, no external GPU required. Edited December 16, 20232 yr by cybrnook
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