They said it would be easy...

I moved my drives to a new server today and couldn't get it to boot to the USB drive. The HDD's were also not recognized but I fixed that(shucked drives, the 3.3V thing).

I tried everything with the USB drive and then finally restored a backup I had made before I moved the drives over. That didn't work either. I got errors when I ran the make_bootable_linux like these:
INFO: Installing Syslinux bootloader on /dev/sdb1
Hidden (2048) does not match sectors (62)
Hidden (2048) does not match sectors (62)
Hidden (2048) does not match sectors (62)
Hidden (2048) does not match sectors (62)

 

So, I grabbed another USB stick, restored the backup, then did the Replace Key. I got an error during that process too!

 

I then put the Plus.key file into the Config directory. It came up for a bit, then I got a "Fatal Flash Drive Error"!

 

Any ideas? Is it possible I just have two bad USB drives(they are Sandisk)?

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20241227-1609.zip

I think I got it!

I think the original USB drive I had in the R710 might have been corrupted for a while but I never noticed it.

Also, when I put together the new server hardware, I used a wireless dongle for the keyboard and mouse. I think there might be RF interference going on.

I reflashed another USB drive and put it in a port away from the USB dongle and it seems to work now.

Odd thing though, it renamed the server to "Tower" from what I had originally.

 

It went into a parity check but I cancelled it. I have one scheduled to run on 1/1/2025 anyway.

 

Seems like all is well at the moment with the USB drive plugged into an adapter on the motherboard.

 

I'll keep an eye on it.