Well, I was playing around with BubbaRaid and had an issue, so i figured the best way to get back to my standard unraid was to delete the contents of my flash drive and just re-extract the 'good' image that I had made back to the empty drive (before I put bubbaraid on it, I copied all the contents of my flash to a location on the hard drive of my pc).  Well, once I did that, I put the flash back into the unraid box and I cannot get the machine to boot.  I just get the mobo splash screen and then a message that says 'Boot error'.  I took out the flash drive and even downloaded a 'clean' copy of unraid (4.4.2) and put that on the flash drive and I get the same thing.

 

So, it seems unlikely that pulling the flash drive out did anything to my hardware, so does anyone have any good ways to try to debug this?  I am able to hold down the 'delete' key while restarting and I get into the bios configuration screen.  For some reason, the USB flash drive had gone down to last in the order of bootable devices, and so I had to update that to put it back to the top.  But, still no luck.

 

Thanks,

Chris

Did you by chance delete the file called ldlinux.sys?  That file should never be deleted.

Oops.  I deleted everything from the drive, but then I copied everything back from my good 'copy' of the drive (i.e. pre-bubba).  For some reason, what you just said gives me a bad feeling...  Is there anything I can do?

Reformat your flash.

Reinstall a virgin copy of unRAID.

Then copy JUST the /config directory back from the good copy.

 

And that is not the best way to undo BubbaRaid.  There is a batch file "disable_bubba.bat" that reversed the BubbaRaid installation.

Reformat your flash.

Reinstall a virgin copy of unRAID.

Then copy JUST the /config directory back from the good copy.

 

And that is not the best way to undo BubbaRaid.  There is a batch file "disable_bubba.bat" that reversed the BubbaRaid installation.

 

I agree.

 

 

Thanks for the tip.  I knew about the batch file to remove bubba, I was trying to be clever and I don't know what I was thinking...

 

Anyway, I tried reformatting the flash drive and then I reinstalled a freshly downloaded version of 4.4.2.  Just for grins, I stuck that in the box and tried to restart and I got a slightly different error.  Instead, it now says:

 

Disk error

Press any key to restart

 

So, I pulled the flash drive, put it back in my pc, formatted it again, reinstalled a freshly downloaded version of 4.4.2 and then I took the 'config' directory from my saved copy and put that on the flash drive and tried again.  Same thing.  Based on your comment, should I consider that something on my flash drive is just hosed?

Thanks for the tip.  I knew about the batch file to remove bubba, I was trying to be clever and I don't know what I was thinking...

 

Anyway, I tried reformatting the flash drive and then I reinstalled a freshly downloaded version of 4.4.2.  Just for grins, I stuck that in the box and tried to restart and I got a slightly different error.  Instead, it now says:

 

Disk error

Press any key to restart

 

So, I pulled the flash drive, put it back in my pc, formatted it again, reinstalled a freshly downloaded version of 4.4.2 and then I took the 'config' directory from my saved copy and put that on the flash drive and tried again.  Same thing.  Based on your comment, should I consider that something on my flash drive is just hosed?

Did you use the "-ma" option to syslinux when you reloaded the flash drive?  It appears as if the drive is not bootable (or you have not got it selected as the boot device in your NIOS)

I did not us the ma option.  My bad.  Its working now.  I'm back to where I can start playing with bubbaraid again.  Thanks for your help everyone...