I was able to get UNRAID downloaded and installed on my usb drive.  I went to boot it up and it gets hung at

 

Starting system message bus:  /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure ; /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

 

Version:  unRAIDServer-5.0-i386

Stock with no plugins.

No way to get to the syslog.

I have only one 4TB drive currently plugged in. 

 

I am running the Memtest86 at the moment.  I have tried booting in both normal and safe modes. 

 

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance. 

I have tried the suggestion by dgaschk in this thread:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=24729.0

 

but I do not have any plugins installed so the only thing I could do was ensure the go file was correct. 

Post a list with all hardware involved. PSU, Motherboard, CPU, Video, Ethernet, Sata Cards, Hard drives, etc.

Sorry, I should have included that in the original post:

 

ASUS P8H77-I LGA 1155 Intel H77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

 

Intel Core i3-3220 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA 1155 55W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500 BX80637i33220

 

SILVERSTONE ST45SF 450W SFX12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

 

G.SKILL 8GB Ripjaws X Series DDR3 1600MHz (2X4GB)

 

HGST 4TB Deskstar Coolspin 3.5" SATA III (4)

Seagate 4TB Barracuda 3.5" (1)

Try a clean install.

As soon as the Memtest is complete I will try another install.  Not sure how it will change anything as this was a new download and I did not change a thing.  I did add your extra line in the go file after it did not boot the first time but that is it.  Maybe I will try the release candidate install this time and see if there is a difference.

 

Thanks for the help.  I will post if successful.

 

 

This is getting frustrating.  I tried the RC release as well as another usb drive with both the RC and regular release.  No luck.  Does it have anything to do with a brand new drive being plugged in?  The cage is empty but I do have a new 4tb drive in the 5.25 slot.  I had planned on clearing it once I get the system booted.  I will try to remove it and see if that helps.  It's frustrating that I have these drives full of data and I cannot get the dang thing to boot. 

 

Any suggestions?  I assume it has to be something to do with hardware but at this point I have no clue.

 

Edit to clarify:  The system has 5 total 4TB drives.  4 drives were sent to a buddy with an unraid build.  He filled up three drives with movies and left one blank.  He sent me a usb 3.0 docking station to use to load the drives.  Install blank drive and clear it.  Transfer data from full drive in docking station to new blank drive.  Repeat until all drives are cleared and all data is imported leaving one 4tb drive empty for future data. 

 

Do you have another system, even a laptop, that you can use to test boot the flash? Does the MB BIOS have another USB drive option, like forced FDD?

If you haven't tried this already, you should try making your system as basic as possible and see if it will at least boot. Just use the motherboard, RAM, and power supply connected to a monitor. Try a different keyboard if you can. Get into the mobo's BIOS and disable any devices you don't need for unRAID like sound, perhaps even the on-board NIC. Double-check you're set to boot from USB. Install the unRAID USB stick in a non-USB 3.0 port.

 

Hopefully this will get you further along in the unRAID boot sequence. If that fails I think I'd try to boot to a live CD or USB for a Linux distribution to verify it's not a hardware issue. Have you already tried another USB drive?

 

Good Luck!

Do you have another system, even a laptop, that you can use to test boot the flash? Does the MB BIOS have another USB drive option, like forced FDD?

 

I do have a Dell XPS laptop here that I can use to try and boot the drive.  I will test that when I get back to the hooch.  Didn't think of that option.  I just assumed that the hardware would not be compatible. 

 

There is an option in the BIOS for forced FDD and I have tried that.  No dice. 

 

Thanks for the help.  Will report back in few hours once I get back.

 

If you haven't tried this already, you should try making your system as basic as possible and see if it will at least boot. Just use the motherboard, RAM, and power supply connected to a monitor. Try a different keyboard if you can. Get into the mobo's BIOS and disable any devices you don't need for unRAID like sound, perhaps even the on-board NIC. Double-check you're set to boot from USB. Install the unRAID USB stick in a non-USB 3.0 port.

 

Hopefully this will get you further along in the unRAID boot sequence. If that fails I think I'd try to boot to a live CD or USB for a Linux distribution to verify it's not a hardware issue. Have you already tried another USB drive?

 

Good Luck!

 

Thanks for the info.  I will try these ideas as well. 

I tried it on the laptop and it came up no problem. 

 

I disabled the audio and other devices and it seemed to hang at the same spot but a few strokes of the enter key and I was at the console login.  Logged in fine. 

 

Ifconfig -a produces no networking other than the loopback address.  A buddy gave me a Belkin N150 router to use but I am getting no lights on the back of either the router or server.  I tried dhclient eth0 to try and make it pull an ip but dhclient is not a command that seems to work on unraid.

 

Still have some more troubleshooting to do tomorrow.  I will try and give it a static address but looking at the router configuration there is no place to set up a reserved ip address.  I am beginning to think I may need another router from the Haji shop on base here.

 

 

never mind.......I am a moron.  I forgot to re-enable the LAN card when I turned everything off.  Fixed it and I am not good to go.  Will shutdown and add the preclear info to the flash so I can get everything started. 

 

Thanks again for all the help!

 

Jason

Damn this is crazy.  I configured the settings and everything in the web interface and shutdown the server.  removed the flash drive and placed the preclear and unmenu files on it.  Did not change anything else.  Now the server will not boot.  Keeps flashing Machine Check Error and looping. 

 

I will get back at in tomorrow night.  Got PT early in the AM here.  By the time I get this thing up and running, we will be getting ready to leave.  :-)

 

 

Is it a new Asus board? You may need to return to BIOS defaults to remove any over-clocking and memory tweaking settings. That probably will restore the disabled on-board devices so you'll want to check those again. Maybe try booting without the keyboard. Wonky power supply?

 

It would be nice if Asus had some kind of stand-alone hardware testing software!  Sorry to see you having to go through this!

Is it a new Asus board? You may need to return to BIOS defaults to remove any over-clocking and memory tweaking settings. That probably will restore the disabled on-board devices so you'll want to check those again. Maybe try booting without the keyboard. Wonky power supply?

 

It would be nice if Asus had some kind of stand-alone hardware testing software!  Sorry to see you having to go through this!

 

Definitely the BIOS.  I did some digging and apparently unraid does not play well with UEFI Bios.  It is completely intermittent though. As soon as I posted, it came up after a few reboots.  I will have to see if there is a legacy BIOS option.  I was able to get in but ran into another problem.  I use a usb dongle for internet access.  Unfortunately that means I cannot install unmenu or preclear.  I tried both.

 

If someone could let me know if this is correct going forward:

 

I have one 4tb drive in the server as a parity drive.  Not assigned.

I have another 4tb drive in formatting now. 

I have three more 4tb drives that are each half full with data that I need to transfer into the array. 

I have a usb 3.0 docking station that I can use to transfer the data from each drive into the array.

As I transfer the data off the drive, I will place the now empty drive into the array and format it for use.  Rinse and repeat until all the drives and data are in the system. 

 

1.  Does that sound like the right way to accomplish this?

2.  Technically how can I accomplish this considering I don't have unmenu/screen or preclear?

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Thanks for the update!

 

You can fix up your USB unRAID drive on another computer. I think you said you had a laptop. Just download the "packages" onto that, plug in the unRAID USB drive, copy them to the right places on the stick and edit the GO file. Then move USB stick to unRAID box.

 

What's the formatting on the drives with the data you want to add? If they're Reiser, done in another unRAID box you may not have to copy them; they may be able to be added to a "new configuration."

 

I'd better let a more experienced forum member guide you on your next move with your data and drives.

 

I'd rethink the USB network dongle situation, that will be a choke point.

 

Cheers!

Thanks for the update!

 

You can fix up your USB unRAID drive on another computer. I think you said you had a laptop. Just download the "packages" onto that, plug in the unRAID USB drive, copy them to the right places on the stick and edit the GO file. Then move USB stick to unRAID box.

 

What's the formatting on the drives with the data you want to add? If they're Reiser, done in another unRAID box you may not have to copy them; they may be able to be added to a "new configuration."

 

I'd better let a more experienced forum member guide you on your next move with your data and drives.

 

I'd rethink the USB network dongle situation, that will be a choke point.

 

Cheers!

 

Not much I can do about the USB dongle internet access.  It is all that is available above 64- 128kbs. 

 

I tried to install unmenu on the usb drive but it needs to be run on the server and have access to Googlecode to download.  I will research a little more to see if there is another option. 

 

I will have to see if the drive formatting is Reiser......once I figure out how to do that. 

 

Preclear is a text script (and a good one at that!); yes you do execute it on the unRAID server but to getting it to the USB drive can be done anywhere. So, download the script from Googlecode onto your laptop and go from there. In other words it's not an installer, so to speak. Pretty much the same with unMENU.

 

It's good to see unRAID actually works with a USB dongle! I'd never thought to try it.

Preclear is a text script (and a good one at that!); yes you do execute it on the unRAID server but to getting it to the USB drive can be done anywhere. So, download the script from Googlecode onto your laptop and go from there. In other words it's not an installer, so to speak. Pretty much the same with unMENU.

 

It's good to see unRAID actually works with a USB dongle! I'd never thought to try it.

 

Unraid does not work on the dongle.  I use the Dongle on the Windows machine.  That is why I do not have internet access on the server. 

 

I figured out that the drives are exFat partitioned full of mp4 files.  2TB's of data per drive.

 

There is esata and usb3 connections on the front of the server.  I am trying to figure out how I can plug this drive in and transfer the data to the current 4tb drive that is formatted and available.  Any suggestions?

I am about done with this system.  I can't believe this is so difficult to get going.  I tried both ways listed in the configuration tutorial to transfer files to the server.  The system will not mount the drive using the direct way and when I try and copy over the network it is only copying at 1.7mbs which would take weeks to copy 2tb's of data. 

I'm not sure I understand how your system is laid out. But you can directly connect two network devices, the unRAID server and the laptop, using a "cross-over" network cable. In theory if the laptop and unRAID's NIC's are GigE you can use a standard network cable between the two. Just manually set them to the same network range (192.168.2.10 and 192.168.2.11 for example). If you can dig up an old switch the units can be interconnected without the need of "The Internet."

 

Can you point me to the tutorial you're using on trying to mount the drives? It might be helpful if you can post a full (from boot) Syslog from your server.

 

You might also want to start a thread about how to mount the data drives within the unRAID server so you can copy them faster; this thread title only deals with booting.

 

But, I take it you have unRAID server running now, right? Thanks!

If you hook the laptop ethernet port to the unraid ethernet port, and share the usb internet connection on the laptop, you should be able to get direct internet access on the unraid box, and the transfer speeds should be quite quick between a drive hooked to the laptop and the server.

I'm not sure I understand how your system is laid out. But you can directly connect two network devices, the unRAID server and the laptop, using a "cross-over" network cable. In theory if the laptop and unRAID's NIC's are GigE you can use a standard network cable between the two. Just manually set them to the same network range (192.168.2.10 and 192.168.2.11 for example). If you can dig up an old switch the units can be interconnected without the need of "The Internet."

 

Can you point me to the tutorial you're using on trying to mount the drives? It might be helpful if you can post a full (from boot) Syslog from your server.

 

You might also want to start a thread about how to mount the data drives within the unRAID server so you can copy them faster; this thread title only deals with booting.

 

But, I take it you have unRAID server running now, right? Thanks!

 

Thanks for the info.  I do not have access to a crossover cable out here but they are bith GigE so I will give that a try.  Yes, my server is up and running perfectly right now.  I just want to transfer the data from 3 drives into the array.  If I can't get it fixed, I will start a new thread.

 

If you hook the laptop ethernet port to the unraid ethernet port, and share the usb internet connection on the laptop, you should be able to get direct internet access on the unraid box, and the transfer speeds should be quite quick between a drive hooked to the laptop and the server.

 

Sounds good.  I'll give it a shot.  Thanks!

I connected the laptop directly to the unraid box and I am only getting 26mbs.  I will start another topic.