I followed the directions and copied the two files to my flash drive's root and rebooted.  I did write down the necessary drive information and make a backup of my flash drive contents first.  However, what I didn't do was go through all of this while at home.

 

My unRAID server apparently has failed to boot, but I was hoping someone could tell me if it's just stuck waiting for me to choose which image I want to use (4.2.3 or 4.3.1b)?  If user-interaction is required, then I've nothing to worry about.  If it's supposed to boot after a time-out period, then I guess I can start hoping the work day will hurry up so I can get home and fix it

 

I have a backup server mirroring this one, so the worst is I have to copy over 1TB of data again.

Another possibility is there's a problem with the server network driver, eg, server booted but the new network driver has a problem.  This is one reason we released -beta1 in order to shake out linux-related issued before we introduce any major unRAID specific features.

 

Do you recall what motherboard you're using?

The board is an Intel DG965RYCK and has an Intel Pro1000-based onboard NIC, so I wouldn't think that it would be a problem.  But like you said, it is a beta.

 

I suppose I'll just have to wait until I get home or my wife can spare her set of eyes for a minute to tell me what's going on.  I'll be sure to report whatever is going on when I find out in case it's relevant to the bug reporting for this release.

Upon getting home, I found that I received a "BOOT FAILED" message as it was loading bzimage.  Hit the reset button on the box and everything loaded fine.  I didn't even have to reassign my drives.