[SOLVED] Lots of errors in syslog, what did I do wrong?

[ohotos]

First of all sorry for the double post, I had posted it in the RC forum but think general support is actually the right place to post this:

Hi all, my Unraid server was running nicely on 5Beta13 for the last year or so but yesterday I upgraded to a bigger server case and when everything started up as expected I decided that it might be a good time to upgrade to the latest Unraid RC.

However now it seems that something is wrong, at least my syslog looks weird:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B32Y1ieA0V-1Qi1ueXkyWnlITjA

 

I have no idea what is wrong, the main page still shows that I am running 5beta13, even though I have overwritten bzimage and bzroot with the new rc8a files on my flash drive.

Yesterday when I restarted I got a similar syslog and it went through a parity check that was OK. Server seems to run (another parity check running right now because I rebooted again) but all those red lines worry me. Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[bcbgboy13]

First off - your motherboard is with the initial factory BIOS. Just suggest to upgrade to the latest one, sett all features at "default" and then disable the unused stuff - serial and parallel ports, audio, IDE controller, floppy...

 

However the problems are with the moving to a bigger case and in the process corrupting or damaging the flash drive (perhaps it come loose..)

 

You will have to scan it and attempt to repair it in another computer.

[ohotos]

However the problems are with the moving to a bigger case and in the process corrupting or damaging the flash drive (perhaps it come loose..)

 

So dev sdg refers to the flash drive then? When I look at all my drives I see sda, sdb, sdc etc next to them but it doesn't say anything next to the flash... makes sense though.

I moved the flash drive from an external usb port to an internal USB header, maybe that is what caused the problems? Anyways I will open the case tonight and take out the flash drive and attempt to repair it. What would be the best option to do this. I have a Mac and a laptop running Ubunto. On the mac I would just try to use the repair option in disk utility don't use the Ubunto laptop very often so I don't know how to go about that on Linux. Any hints are appreciated.

Thanks!

[ohotos]

So I just took out the flash drive and when I plug it into my Mac it isn't properly recognized, it says that there is no partition on it and I can't see any files. Now if I want to redo the drive from my backup files is it enough to just format as fat32 and drag all the files on it or do I have to go through any special steps like when setting up the flash for the first time?

[dgaschk]

Follow the steps completely.

[ohotos]

Follow the steps completely.

So I set up as a new flash according to http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation and then once that is done I overwrite the config file only with my last backup, or do I have to overwrite more files or how do I go about this? Just want to make sure I don't loose anything.

[ohotos]

Looks like my flash drive is corrupted beyond recover. I can't erase, repartition etc from my Mac or from a Linux computer. Probably I will have to see if I can get my Unraid license transferred to a different drive.

UPDATE: It looks like when I copied the files from the flash drive for backup before that it didn't copy all the most important stuff. The folder config doesn't have any files in it! Grrrr! I might have an older backup but not sure if that is still up to date. Now I am off reading through the forums on how to start fresh and reuse the current hard drives without loosing my data. Any tips in the meantime are appreciated.

[ohotos]

I was finally able to recover my flash backup. Seems like my flash was really corrupted. Tom sent me a new key for a new flash drive and server runs without any issues on 5rc8a now. It was a lot easier than I expected to fix this. Thanks for your help.