Fellow unRAIDians,

 

My unRAID 5 will no longer boot after a shutdown. It appears to be an issue w/ my USB drive. I see the boot menu and it does start to boot. However, all I see on screen is a bunch of scrolling "....................." and the system never fully boots. I can still read the contents on the thumb drive. Based on what I've read on the forum, it appears the first order of business is to try a scandisk on the drive. I plan to:

• Copy the contents including my key from the config dir
  
• scandisk
  
• No matter the result, I want to format the drive and start fresh
  
• restore the saved config files and key
  

 

Does this look good? Since this drive has failed, I really don't trust it so, I plan to replace it soon.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

cesman

if you can still read the drive it could be something else.

also since you are using paid license you might not be able to boot into your full server as license is tied to your usb key.

if it was me, I would do this differently.

 

 

#0 copy all from your key, regardless of what the issue is. you need a good backup of all the files from it.

 

 

 

#1.  get soem other usb key I know to work and setup the totally new basic unraid setup free edition.

boot into that and see if it works.

 

if boot is OK move to #2

 

if boot is not ok (ie. same issue on new setup using different key etc. than it might be not your usb key.)

 

#2 copy all from your key (if you did not follow #0 :-)  )

do a full format of your key and setup a basic version on it as you did the test key.

boot from it.

 

if it boots from it  there might be an issue with your config.

copy the license file only.

identify your Parity drive. make sure you get the correct drive for parity.

I am sure some one else will chime in here, but I think the most important thing is to assign the parity drive properly as you can create a new config and put the data drives in any slot with no issue or data loss but if you put a parity drive into data slot and data drive into parity slot you will loose the data.

create new config and assign all the drive into proper slots.

 

boot form that.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the reply. When you say "copy everything" do you mean the entire contents of the USB drive or the contents of the config dir?

 

Looks like the issue maybe with the bzroot file...

The old thumb drive is bad... I've installed unRAID a new one and copied over the config dir. All appears in order except, I'm waiting for a new key file to get the system back up and running. I do have a screenshot of my old configuration with all but 2 recently added drives. So, I should be in good shape once I have the new key.