January 3, 200917 yr Hi Guys, I hope this is the right place to get help when things aren't working... I just bought a bunch of hardware for my first ever unRaid and two Pro License Flash drives from Tom, put it all together... and... It's not working... By the way, this is the "unofficially official unRaid Motherboard" and hardware suggested by a few of the unRaid gurus around here. (see this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2917.30) As far as I can tell, all the hardware seems to be setup/working correctly... Bios Detects: Intel Celeron 430 @ 1.8GHz 2014 MB RAM Memtest86+ returns no errors for the RAM (Kingston). The machine boots right off the USB I purchased from Tom, going to a menu allowing a Memtest86+ run or unRaid. If I choose unRaid, it runs: Loading bzimage.. Loading bzroot........................................ [bunch of text] Unpacking initramfs [bunch of text] reno registered [bunch of text] using parport [bunch of text] SCREEN GOES TO SCRAMBLED TEXT about 95% of the time SCROLLING by madly (various colors scrambled among the text)... Once it's just been scrambled text, without the movement... and twice the screen will just be black with a blinking white cursor in the lower left corner. What've I done wrong? I've tried: One memory chip, another flash drive (I bought two), disabling the parallel port (parport?) in the BIOS - there isn't a physical port on this mobo anyway, looking for power/speed adjustment settings for the RAM (aren't any), turning off IDE controllers on the Mobo (aren't ports for it anyway). Thanks, Russell
January 3, 200917 yr Try noacpi: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2159.msg17047#msg17047
January 3, 200917 yr What kind of video card do you have? It almost sounds like there are video issues when the kernel loads some font data. It could be a conflict of where video memory is. Try moving the video card to another slot. I've seen this before, but only on a bad video card. When the machine comes up, does it actually function on the network? Can you telnet into it?
January 3, 200917 yr Author Hey BubbaQ and WeeboTech, Thanks for the quick replies... The video is onboard - I don't have ANY add-on cards. I've tried changing the line (syslinux.cfg file): append initrd=bzroot to: append initrd=bzroot pci=noacpi Then I get a black screen - nothing on it - but according to the monitor a video signal is received. Is this what I SHOULD see? I tried changing the line: append initrd=bzroot to: append initrd=bzroot acpi=off Now I get a "Tower login" box... and WOW... I can connect to it over the network! You guys rock! Thank you so much! I have a working unRaid Server!!! I've been LIMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) Russell
January 3, 200917 yr Exactly which MB did you purchase? Is it the SUPERMICRO MBD-C2SEE-O from Newegg? (It was not real clear in the thread you linked to, as several MB were listed as you evaluated potential hardware) If so, then thanks from me too... I figured I'd be powering up my second unRAID server using that same SUPERMICRO MBD-C2SEE-O motherboard some time this weekend. If it were not for this thread, I'd probably end up with exactly the same boot errors. Happy to hear you are up and running. ;D Joe L.
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