December 27, 2025Dec 27 I've had intermittent boot problems for a couple years.At first very rarely on startup it wouldn't pass the bios screen. No error, just stuck. But a reset would fix it.Over time the frequency increased to the point every reboot or power on required at least a dozen tries to start. I assumed it was power-related (power supply/degrading capacitors) but couldn't find a pattern.Recently, after going through the usual fidgeting on startup, it passed the BIOS but for the first time UNRAID wouldn't boot with the log reporting USB errors.So I created a new boot drive* and problem solved. I've restarted half a dozen times since, cold/warm doesn't matter, starts every time.I'd have thought with all the writing to flash - a thousand notifications, plugin and OS updates, etc - a bad drive would report errors. But nothing, not even one.Posting in case anyone else has a similar problem.*The unraid boot creator was unnecessarily frustrating. It errored out when I tried to create the drive from a backup zip on Mac, so I tried the windows version (on a windows VM), which also failed. In the end I used the manual creation process and copied the config and other directories over.
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