March 29, 20242 yr Greetings, Returned home from a trip last night to find my dockers not working, so I attempted unsuccessfully to reboot the system. I do not even get a bios splash screen, either rebooting or booting cold. Here are the steps I have taken so far and my limited conclusions: Removed boot drive and powered up the system gets me to the bios, which appears normal plugged the boot drive into my pc, I can read the drive normally Powered down the unraid machine, plugged in the boot drive, and powered up again failed to produce bios splash screen (multiple times) I am able only able to boot the system by pulling the boot drive, powering up the machine and getting into the bios, inserting the boot drive, and exiting the bios this yields the normal unraid boot screen, from which the system boots normally with no issues. I am not sure how to proceed from here. It seems to me that being able to read the drive on my pc indicates that the drive is not the problem, so my instincts tell me its an issue with the bios. I'm thinking that I should update the bios, but don't want to compound the problem by doing that. Any and all advice is appreciated. Diagnostics attached but I'm not sure they are relevant. gbh-tower-diagnostics-20240329-1110.zip
March 29, 20242 yr Community Expert Solution Can you boot with a different flash drive with a stock install?
March 29, 20242 yr Author The system will boot into drive with a Debian installer on it, so I guess that makes this an issue with the drive itself. I will go through the motions of replacing the drive. Thank you JorgeB for your assistance. If I can boot into a new unraid drive I will mark as solved. Just for my knowledge, do you have any idea what could be wrong with the boot drive?
March 29, 20242 yr Community Expert Not really, but if another one works it suggests there's some problem with that one.
March 29, 20242 yr Author After replacing the drive and updating my key, the system booted normally, though it failed to do so when tested a second time. I tried booting from a drive with the latest trial version, and that worked, so I once again put the drive with the updated key in and it booted normally. I am unsure how to troubleshoot this further.
March 30, 20242 yr Community Expert If it works sometimes and not others, it suggests an intermittent hardware issue, maybe the board, or a USB controller.
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