March 9, 201412 yr I'm a first time unraid user, and I can't get unraid to install on my newly built nas. I'm getting a little frustrated. I will walk through what I've done and hopefully somebody will have some ideas. I just built a new nas with the following specs: 1) ASUS H87I-PLUS LGA 1150 Intel H87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard With UEFI BIOS 2) Intel Pentium Processor G3220 3.0 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646G3220 3) G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL 4) SeaSonic SSR-360GP 360W ATX12V v2.31 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Active PFC Power Supply 5) Two Western Digital 4 TB WD Red SATA III 5400 RPM 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM NAS Hard Drive WD4 (with my hodgepodge of smaller drives to be added later) 6) Fractal Design Node 304 FD-CA-NODE-304-BL Black Aluminum / Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 7) SanDisk Cruzer Fit SDCZ33-008G-B35 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Black (for unraid booting) I put all of that together, turned it on, and got into bios. All drives and memory were recognized. I then used my Windows 7 laptop computer to create the unraid install / boot flash drive per this: http://lime-technology.com/unraid-server-installation/ I created the unraid boot flash, following the procedures exactly to the best of my knowledge (formatting, renaming to UNRAID, admin-running "make bootable."). Initially, I had a permissions issue in running the "make bootable" bat file. Even thought I right-clicked "run as administrator," the windows 7 profile I was using was not an administrator-level user (I usually use a non-admin level login for virus / Trojan protection). The command line window initially gave me an some kind of error that suggested I didn't have the proper rights, so I logged in as a admin-level account after which "make bootable" told me it was now successful. I then put the flash into an external usb port on my nas (there is no port inside the case), powered up, and got into bios. The bios recognized the flash drive, and I reset the boot priority to the flash. When I rebooted, I got a quick message that said "machine check error," and then it just reboots over and over. I then followed all of the trouble shooting tips contained on the install link I posted above (forced-fdd, usb-hdd, etc). Nothing worked. At this point, I started to think that the "make bootable" wasn't working properly on my flash drive. I knew that "make bootable" was supposed to create a hidden file on the flash drive to make it bootable by adding a file named "ldlinux.sys." However, I could never see that file (even clicking show hidden files option), and I thought that perhaps this was the issue. But I later found the "ldlinux.sys" with on the flash drive via a command line "dir." The other thing that I did was to take my same flash drive, reformat it, and then download a bootable version of Ubuntu on it. I put that flash drive into my nas, and guess what? It booted to Ubuntu the very first time with no problems. In other words, my nas CAN boot to Linux from this particular flash drive and with these particular bios settings. But for some reason, I'm unable to boot the unraid software. I have reformatted the flash drive and retraced my steps multiple times without success. Does anybody have any ideas? edit: After posting the above, I found this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=27001.0 But there does not appear to an answer to it.
March 9, 201412 yr Checking BIOS version is a good idea. My first thought was RAM error. ? Isn't 'Machine Check Error' usually a RAM problem? I seem to remember a number of threads about how MCE can be ignored in unRAID 5, and they stop in unRAID 6 (with 64bit code). But all those threads discuss systems that will boot and operate...the MCE errors only appear in the syslog. If, as you describe, you get repeating MCE/reboot/MCE/reboot, etc., I'd check that your RAM is seated firmly in the MB. You might try a memtest on it...I've never been in your situation, so I'm not sure if you can get to the unRAID bootup memtest from where you're at. You might try a ubuntu memtest.
March 9, 201412 yr Author It worked after updating bios. I feel like I missed that easy step, but I was messing with this until 3am (and then I lost an hour on the time change). FYI--Although the bios update is a basic step, I didn't see it on here: http://lime-technology.com/unraid-server-installation/ Thanks for the help guys.
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