October 1, 201312 yr Loading operating system Boot Error This is the message I am seeing after moving my entire unraid server to a new case. My old case ran out of drive space so I got a new case to migrate into. After a few hours moving parts I was ready to fire things up again. I moved the server back to its normal spot, hooked things up and powered it on. However, upon power-up the server posts and seems to be ready to go boot when suddenly it throws the above error. I took the flash to my computer to make sure there are files there and there are, so the flash itself appears to be in tact. I am currently running 5.0RC16a and everything was running just fine. I am slightly nervous, but suspect my data remains in tact, just need to get the system to boot.
October 1, 201312 yr you may have to start slowly. do you have print your configuration. disconnect cards & hdd by removing 1 plug on each. start with the usb then work you way up to m/b drives & them cards & finally. v5 final 2 towers (1st 4tb 6x1.5 6x2tb, 2nd all 2tb) 14 hdd each 26 & 23 tb each both i3 & 4gb ram on 1156 cpu asus & giga boards
October 1, 201312 yr Author Is it safe to run make boot on it again? Just wondering what is throwing the error, is it the flash/unraid as typically the message is something like no boot disk available in all caps if there is nothing to boot to, that's why I suspect the flash. Also, it appears under boot devices. So the system sees the flash, I think.
October 1, 201312 yr Author Yeah, took a screen shot of the disk layout before moving things since I knew everything would be plugged in somewhere different
October 1, 201312 yr Author Ok, got things sorted out. As suspected, the issue was with the flash drive. Instead of fighting with my server, I took the flash to another computer and got the same error. I, booted to Windows and ran make boot. I then tried to boot again but got a different error, but now I was farther along. The error said there was an invalid menu.c32 so I downloaded rc16 again, copied just that one file overwriting the existing one. It was some 30kb bigger, rebooted my computer and this time I got the boot menu telling me it is working again. I then took it to my server for the real test. Plugged it in, booted and everything was a go. I tested the Web gui, all disks were assigned and the array was online. So, not sure what exactly this means for my flash drive and why it freaked out.
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