February 19, 201313 yr has anyone every used a Kingston MobileLite G3 reader successfully? I have a 2GB SD card plugged in, properly formatted for 5.0 RC11 labelled as UNRAID. copied all the AiO to the root of the flash, formatted as FAT (tried FAT32 as well). make bootable was run. on my server i did a clean shut down, removed my old stick (running 5.0-rc5), copied the config dir to the new sd card, plugged it in and booted. it appeared to boot ok. however //tower/Main did not work in firefox. and the monitor for tower shoed some new messages "waiting for /dev/UNRAID-LABEL" or something like that. it waiting for 8-10 seconds then continued booting to the login screen. tried to ping it using the old IP, no response. went to login to the server, logged in as user name 'root', expecting to type in the password. however it didnt need one (?) and logged right in. ifconfig eth0 showed it was getting a DHCP IP of 192.168.1.115 instead of the static IP of 192.168.1.2 that is declared in network.cfg. i could ping it from my laptop, but could not access the webGUI at all. i copied the syslog from /var/log/syslog to /boot when I shutdown and attempted to copy the syslog from the sdcard it was not there (?)
February 19, 201313 yr Everything you are describing would occur if the label on the flash drive was not set to UNRAID (exactly 6 characters, all upper case) If you fix that, and reboot, everything else should work as expected. No need to reformat or reload the software. What character set are you using on your PC?
February 19, 201313 yr Author its labelled as UNRAID. I tested it on a lap top w/o the reader and it booted just fine to a clean install of rc11. Win7 Region and Language is set to English-US.
February 19, 201313 yr Will the reader with the SD card installed boot on the laptop? You said the SD card would. PS I am using the Kingston MobileLite G2 adapter and love. But it appears to be a discontinued item...
February 19, 201313 yr Author Will the reader with the SD card installed boot on the laptop? You said the SD card would. PS I am using the Kingston MobileLite G2 adapter and love. But it appears to be a discontinued item... will not boot in the laptop w/ sd card installed in the reader, but does show up as a selection.
February 19, 201313 yr Author Was there a 'Key' file in your config directory that you copied over? tried with and without.
February 19, 201313 yr Author the mobile lite g3 has a micro and regular SD card slot. I tried a micro SD and it booted on the laptop just fine It appears that with the G3 the "primary" device is the microSD slot instead of the SD slot as in the G2. will try this when I get home.
February 19, 201313 yr tthe mobile lite g3 has a micro and regular SD card slot. I tried a micro SD and it booted on the laptop just fine will try this when I get home. Glad to hear that you got it to work. Don't know quite you thought this knowledge deserved the mad face. From what I see, the cost of the two cards are about the same. (Of course, you might have a whole desk drawer full of 2GB SD cards that you used for an old digital camera. Be sure and check to see if it appears to have a unique GUID identifier sequence. It might be a replacement for the G2 if it does. If you find that it does, you might want to post that knowledge (and the fact that it requires an micro SD card to boot) in this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=23008.0
February 19, 201313 yr Author not quite there yet. as when plugged into my server @ home (laptop testing happening at work) it "booted" but results were not as expected (passwords lost, network.cfg lost). i copied my entire stick to the sd card, copied bzimage, bzroot, syslinux files to the new card, re-ran make_bootable. i was expecting all my old passwords and network cfg to work.
February 19, 201313 yr If you system has more than three drives in it (you indicated that you had a key file which imply that), the system would be looking for a GUID on the G3 that matched the GUID number that is encoded in the key file. I do not know what happens when this match fails...
February 19, 201313 yr Author i was able to get the GUID today via the laptop and emailed tom to get a new plus.key. once i get that loaded on i'll report back.
February 20, 201313 yr Author So here's the verdict. It doesnt work. Now, here's why. First thing i did was get my current functional stick to rc11. got that done easily. stop array, power down, remove stick, copy the basics to the drive, re-run make_bootable.bat and presto, rc11 without so much as a hiccup. so, take the MicroSD card, format it to FAT (same as stick), copy the entire stick contents over, run make_bootable. plug it in and press power. BOOT DEVICE NOT FOUND, PLEASE INSERT BOOT DISK. wtf? ok, so power down again, remove G3 reader, format regular SD card to same specs. put it back into the server and power up. unraid boot menu appears, hurray! get to booting and get that message again "waiting for /dev/BY-LABEL/UNRAID...." did that8 times or so then said "label UNRAID" not found . . uhh ok. loads to tower menu. again passwords gone, ip settings gone, its like the stick gets "re-booted" mid-boot. well.. thats where I'm at for now. Same laptop used earlier to format/label/copy stick contents to reader so i dunno. My server's mobo is quite old (uses ddr2-800 mem) so perhaps its incompatible with the G3 fully.
February 20, 201313 yr Try putting the same contents on both a SD card AND a microSD card, both in the G3 together. It sounds like the BIOS-boot will only see the SD sub-device, but unRAID will only see the microSD sub-device. unRAID definitely needs fixing so that it can see, and scan, both sub-devices in the G3 (AND in the G2, by the way). I don't use unRAID, but I do have a G2 and uncrippled Linux sees both cards. I don't believe that unRAID has access to the microSD in a G2. --UhClem
February 20, 201313 yr Tom needs to add something to the SCSI layer to SCAN ALL LUNS. I think this is what I had to do a while back. Once I get my esxi development host built I'll be able to test this out. With USB 3.0's increased speed, the multi drive devices in unRAID are now a possibility with USB.
June 23, 201412 yr Did we ever get anywhere with this. I have the exact same issue with a G2 and was about to buy a G3 to try as well.
June 23, 201412 yr I have both G2 and G3 devices, and on my system I can boot off either the SD or the Micros-SD card on both of them. It sounds as if this therefore whether this works or not might be a motherboard issue. The only thing I found was that the SD and Micro SD devices show up with different GUID's so when getting an unRAID license I had to select which I would use.
June 24, 201412 yr That was my thinking too but I tried it on 3 considerably different systems (old AMD, modern Z77 and Fujitsu server) all with the same result. The only remaining common factors are the G2 and the way I made the microSD. I cant change the G2 but I can at least try a different install of the microSD.
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