June 28, 201214 yr Hello all, apologize in advance for Noob questions. Ironically, not a complete noob but my original setup went without a hitch so I have never had to "fix"anything before. Stable system last 6 months based on ASUS P5Q Mobo. Power spike and bad UPC did for the motherboard and the only thing that I was able to get locally that seemed to have chips that were listed as supported was the 1155 board shown in the subject or below. Now I have exactly the issue listed in the copied thread below: Both USBs are the recommended Lexar Fireflys. Both always worked fine. Replaced MOBO nic with recommended Intel pro 1000, nothing. With one I tried the re-format with the HP tool, no joy. The USB just won't mount. MoBo specs are here: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V/ Bios is current. Any help would be greatly appreciated! http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3610.msg31227#msg31227 Re: Trouble with GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H board - boots unRAID but no Web Interface « Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 08:33:53 AM » Quote Quote from: damac3 on April 07, 2009, 08:04:13 AM I am a complete unRAID noob and have little to no Linux experience, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE forgive me! I thought I would test out unRAID a bit before I parted out a new system. I had an old system laying around with an old PC Chips motherboard, an old 1.2Ghz Athlon, and 392MB RAM. I threw a SATA Promise PCI card in there that is on the recommended list and hooked up 3 WD 1TB "Green" drives. I put unRAID 4.4.2 on my flash drive, and booted right up. I assigned the drives (and the parity drive, which I know I should not have until I got my data transferred), and started moving files over. It was painfully slow with that old computer, but hey it was working. I decided to order some parts to make a faster system that is more expandable but energy efficient and cheap for now. So I bought the Coolermaster 690 case, the GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard, 2.2Ghz Sempron CPU (cheap, low energy), 2GB DDR, and 450W Corsair (recommended here). I moved my three drives over to the new system along with my flash drive. Hooked everything up and turned it on. It booted unRAID fine, except at the end of the bootup where I would see samba sharing initialized I instead see the network config files listed and "lNo such directory exists" instead. My router isn't showing a device on the network, and I am unable to ping the device. I tried setting it to a static IP in the network.cfg file, but that didn't work, either. I even tried using another NIC and turning off the onboard NIC, but that didn't work either. One last thing, when I used the command ifconfig, it didn't return any info. But when I used ethtool, it showed an uplink and it looked like the system recognized the ethernet controller. So I don't know what to do. I have exhausted my skills to this point, and I have searched and read suggested fixes on here with no luck. Should I try a different motherboard? Thanks for any help! Your flash drive is not being properly recognized by your new hardware. Usually it is because you did not set the volume label to "UNRAID" but it could be other things too. first try a different flash drive. Try a more current version of "syslinux" to set it up. Try re-formatting the flash drive with the HP tool to allow for a geometry that your BIOS might recognize. Type ls -l /dev/disk/* If you do not see the flash drive in the /dev/disk/by-label listing, it cannot be mounted. If it cannot be mounted, it cannot set up the networking. (and you get exactly the symptoms you are seeing) Other ideas... See if there is a BIOS update for your motherboard... Try a different USB connector. Try different "USB" settings in the BIOS. Joe L.
June 28, 201214 yr Using the USB 3.0 or 2.0 ports? Also, which version. At a minimum - the 82579V will require v5
June 28, 201214 yr Author Thanks for the reply. Tried several ports both USB 2.0 and 3.0 Unraid boots just fine, just the USB isn't mounted post boot. Using Version 4.7, was going to try V5 RC 4 tonight see if that fixed.
June 28, 201214 yr Author Away from the office right now, but will do it tonight. I will try the RC 4 first, then if that doesn't work I'll re-install the 4.7 drive and do a syslog.
June 29, 201214 yr Author Just realized a big hole in the logic. I can't mount the USB, so I have no idea how to save the syslog anywhere.
June 29, 201214 yr Is the volume label on the USB drive UNRAID I believe it has to be that for the volume to mount post boot. Also make sure only one USB flash drive is connected while testing
June 30, 201214 yr Author It is. The correct solution though is simply move to V5 RC4. Fires up with out a hitch and so far 100% compatible with no patches, drivers, updates needed.
July 2, 201214 yr Glad you got it sorted out. Any chance you can change the topic to include solved, so that others looking for a solution to this problem are more likely to find your post quickly?
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