February 15, 201214 yr Last night, my array was happily chugging along without a care in the world. I shut down (properly), moved the box, plugged it back in, and it wasn't responding. So I dug up a monitor and hooked it up. I see (typos are mine; I'm just reading off the other monitor): ................ hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 82 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 84 hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID does not exist INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 Going multiuser... Updating shared library links: /sbin/ldconfig & Starting sysklogd daemons: /usr/sbin/syslogd -m0 /user/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x Triggering udev events: /sbin/udevadm trigger --type=failed /etc/rc.d/rc/inet1.conf: line 18: /boot/config/network.cfg: No such file or directory /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf: line 19: /boot/config/network.cfg: No such file or directory Welcome to Linux 2.6.32.9-unRAID (tty1) Tower login: ................ Odd things I noted include the lack of a root password and the USB stick seems to be running at USB1 speed. When I try to change to /boot/config, the directory doesn't exist. /boot is empty. I put the thumb drive on my Windows machine and it shows up fine and passes diagnostics. All of the directories appear to be right where they should be including all of the extra stuff I added way back. Anyone have any ideas? I've done a few searches but came up with stuff like not having the drive label set to UNRAID during initial test runs but this has been running for ages and I haven't made any changes since November when I filled out my last drive spots and someone helped me with a boot issue. (I did check and the label is still set to unRAID.) unRAID version 4.7 Supermicro X7SPA-H motherboard Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 controller PC Power and Cooling Silencer 760 power supply (single 12v rail at 62 amps) 3x Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B racks 14x misc. 2tb drives Geek Squad 256 meg USB stick
February 15, 201214 yr Your USB drive was not recognized and mounted, why I do not know. Run a check disk on the drive from a windows machine then put it back in the unRAID machine and reboot.
February 15, 201214 yr Did you move your USB stick to a different socket? It could be making a difference.
February 15, 201214 yr Author Ran a chkdsk with no reported problems/repairs. Also checked for bad sectors which came up clean. The USB stick was not removed during the move and I put it back in the same socket after testing. It's in a socket on the motherboard inside the case. There's only one like it on the board so I couldn't have mixed it up. (One of the handy features of the motherboard.) I haven't tried booting with the USB stick in a different socket. I hope that doesn't turn out to be the solution because I don't want that big old stick hanging out of a port. Trying now...Not looking good. Still USB1 speed on the loader...loading...loading...loading...Nope. Same thing. I'm going to pick thru the BIOS to see if everything looks right and, if I'm still not getting a good boot, I'll reset to defaults. Very annoying.
February 15, 201214 yr Author No dice on tweaking/resetting the BIOS. I guess I'll have to rebuild the stick. Any easy pointers to making sure I transfer the necessary data to the new build?
February 16, 201214 yr If you have a different stick maybe try putting on a clean copy on a different stick as a test. I had a thumb drive fail booting but otherwise worked fine. The kicker was it would boot fine in another machine. Not until i tried it in a third system did i realize the real issue. When I replaced it the problems went away.
February 17, 201214 yr Author Just to update, I haven't tried a fresh USB stick build yet because I had a couple other things come up. I'm going to try rebuilding on my existing stick since my key is bound to the GUID of my current stick. I'll get to it by the weekend and report back.
February 18, 201214 yr Author Well, heck. Still doesn't work. Must be something wonky with the USB stick because it's running at USB1 speed on any computer I hook it up to and one laptop doesn't recognize it at all. I'll have to see if I can get my license transferred to a new stick.
February 18, 201214 yr IF you do transfer your key, get one of these: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=17950.0
February 23, 201214 yr Author To follow up, I bought a new key (4 gig Lexar Firefly since it was on the preferred list), got a new key generated, and copied my config over. Booted right up at proper USB2 speed and I'm back in business. Bummer that my old USB stick went south. It was very fast but, at 256 megs, booting unRAID was the only practical use I had for it. Wish I'd seen that "reader" idea. I have an old 1 gig SD card kicking around. Of course, just as flash drives will eventually fail, so will readers. Tying your key to a reader doesn't really eliminate the issue of failing hardware. Just makes it easier to switch flash media.
February 23, 201214 yr To follow up, I bought a new key (4 gig Lexar Firefly since it was on the preferred list), got a new key generated, and copied my config over. Booted right up at proper USB2 speed and I'm back in business. Bummer that my old USB stick went south. It was very fast but, at 256 megs, booting unRAID was the only practical use I had for it. Wish I'd seen that "reader" idea. I have an old 1 gig SD card kicking around. Of course, just as flash drives will eventually fail, so will readers. Tying your key to a reader doesn't really eliminate the issue of failing hardware. Just makes it easier to switch flash media. All hardware will fail. The flash drives and SD cards have a limited number of write cycles. The longevity of the card reader is not limited by use and the GUID and unRAID license is assigned to the card reader, not the inserted media.
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