I'm trying to transfer my unRAID server settings from one flash drive to another. I spent the past few days preclearing drives and doing the parity calculation for my server on a spare flash drive, while waiting for my Pro flash drive to arrive. Now it's here and I read that it should just be a matter of copying and pasting over the files, however when I do that my motherboard hangs on the Intel Boot Agent screen showing 'Boot error'.

 

Is there any way to transfer my old unRAID settings to my new flash drive so I don't have to repeat the process of preclearing drives etc?

Did you run the bootable file thingie to make the new flash drive bootable?  I forgot to do that, and the server wouldn't start up until I ran the bootable file.

I was just doing that when you replied lol. Yeah that was the problem, I completely forgot to do it, even after reading the installation instructions again.

 

Although now I've got a different problem. When unRAID boots, it doesn't recognise my password to log into root. It's not the default setting either. And it's also obviously not reading the network.cfg file, because it's not picking up DHCP or the static IP I set in network.cfg

For the password issue, it is case sensitive.  If you can't remember the password, and you can't access the flash drive you will have to turn off the server manually.  Plug in your flashdrive to your PC, and delete the password file "config/passwd."

 

I wouldn't set an static IP address, until you can access your server.  I tried doing the same time last time by inputting the IP address to the network.cfg file, and it wouldn't work.  Try turning on / off your router, switch prior to turning on your server, and see if that works.  Leave your network.cfg as DHCP, and thereafter if it works make it a static.

Thanks, that solved the password issue.

 

The main reason I set the static IP was because the server wasn't picking up any settings from DHCP.

Well it all seems okay now. For some reason it's having to do a parity sync again, but I think that's because I've upgraded the flash drive from 4.7 to the last V5 RC?

Well, good to know everything is working.  Enjoy.