I'm currently in the process of trying to boot into Unraid on a spare PC, however it consistently freezes in that same spot in the boot process. The log on screen will get to "Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-generic, zoned=no, fseverity=no" followed by "pstore: Using crash dump compression: deflate" as pictured here: https://i.imgur.com/paGq45R.jpg

Somewhat rarely after stalling it will give me a crash dump/stack trace, however it usually just stalls. Dump pictured here: https://i.imgur.com/7iO6QQz.jpg

At this point I've stripped out pretty much everything from the PC, it's just the mobo, ram, and USB stick. No harddrives, gpu, etc.. I updated the bios, toggled pretty much every option available to me, Fastboot, CSM, Secure Boot, ran and passed memtest overnight. Windows boots just fine, the USB I'm booting from works on a different PC, tried two different USB sticks... I'm running out of ideas, any thoughts on what I can try?

Here's the boot settings in my bios. Their current settings were set after resetting the bios to their defaults, as mentioned above I've trying turning things like fastboot off: https://imgur.com/a/g5FoFnR
Using the latest version of Unraid at time of creating the stick: 6.12.6
Motherboard is an Asus PRIME Z270-A, Intel i7-7700K cpu

Edited January 9, 20242 yr by sup3rgh0st

Is there a way I can enable more verbose logging to better diagnose what it's getting hung up on?

You can try reseting the BIOS to defaults, if the same try booting v6.11.5

15 hours ago, JorgeB said:

You can try reseting the BIOS to defaults, if the same try booting v6.11.5

Hey Jorge, thanks for the suggestion. Resetting the BIOS to defaults and/or booting v6.11.5 resulted in the same stall. As did turning off FastBoot on v6.11.5.
Anything else you can think I can try?

Sorry, but if neither v6.11 or v6.12 boot looks to me like a board issue.

5 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Sorry, but if neither v6.11 or v6.12 boot looks to me like a board issue.

Board issue as in something is physically wrong with my board or do you think there's a compatibility issue?

Could be either, see if you can boot a different OS, like an Ubuntu live flash drive, if that works it could be compatibility.

1 minute ago, JorgeB said:

Could be either, see if you can boot a different OS, like an Ubuntu live flash drive, if that works it could be compatibility.

I was able to boot into Debian and Windows without issue, looks to be an issue with Unraid then which is a shame. I don't suppose there's a way to get and save better logs on boot to see what's going wrong?

Not really, sometimes we see some strange issues, I remember a user that could not boot with an Asus Prime B250M-K, by coincidence I had the same board available and no issues booting Unraid, we later found out that it boots fine with an i5 7500, which is what I was using, but not an i5 6500, what he was using, it started working as soon as he changed the CPU to a 7th gen, who knows why.

Update on this, I found someone with the same motherboard and cpu combo and they're able to boot without issue.

It looks like whatever the problem is, is an issue with Arch. The USB boot medium crashes there as well, this time hanging on the line "triggering uevents".