I upgraded my server to 5.0.5. I formatted flash, installed 5.0.5, ran make disk bootable, transfer config file. Now when server starts it just has three slots available and says basic instead of pro. I bought 2 pro licenses years ago and have never had a problem upgrading. Is the flash going bad or am i missing something. thanks.

Copy the Pro key file you received from Limetech when you bought the license to the config directory on the flash drive, then reboot.

I tried that, I think part of the problem is that I have two flash drives both with pro licenses. I used one to upgrade to 5.0 rc16c and the other had 4.7 on it. I then used the flash with 4.7 on it to go to 5.0.5. It boots only in basic and when I look at GUID it says flash guid ####################, then says registered GUID ########################## Wrong. The register guid is the flash guid of my other stick. I need learn how to change GUID numbers in the unraid server. I dont want to mess with the flash that works, this has been my MO since I started unraid swapping each flash as I go so there is always a working flash. I appreciate your help,  if you know how to do this that would be great, thanks again.

The Pro.key file has to be in the Config folder on your flash drive.

 

If you wiped the drive and recreated it with a v5 download, you need to add that key to it.  Hopefully you have backed this file up (or still have the original e-mail from when it was sent to you).

 

If not, if you send LimeTech an e-mail with your e-mail address and the GUID of the flash drive, I'm sure Tom will re-send the key.

 

I tried that, I think part of the problem is that I have two flash drives both with pro licenses. I used one to upgrade to 5.0 rc16c and the other had 4.7 on it. I then used the flash with 4.7 on it to go to 5.0.5. It boots only in basic and when I look at GUID it says flash guid ####################, then says registered GUID ########################## Wrong. The register guid is the flash guid of my other stick. I need learn how to change GUID numbers in the unraid server. I dont want to mess with the flash that works, this has been my MO since I started unraid swapping each flash as I go so there is always a working flash. I appreciate your help,  if you know how to do this that would be great, thanks again.

You cannot change the GUID - it is built into the USB flash drive (which is why a license is tied to a particular GUID).  You need to have the correct .key file for that particular USB stick.  The error message suggest you have the wrong .key file on the drive at the moment.

... I bought 2 pro licenses years ago...

 

As itimpi noted, it seems you have copied the wrong key file to the drive.  As I noted earlier, if you can't find your key file, if you send Limetech your info -- the e-mail address you used when you bought the keys and your GUID I'm sure they'll re-send the key for that drive.

 

Just click on "Flash" on the main Web GUI page and it will show you the GUID for that unit.

 

This is what happened. I purchased 2 preformatted lexar filreflys from unraid. I have always backed them up and rotated flashes when I updated. Im assuming they both came preformatted with 2 pro keys installed on both drives. All my back up flash files have 2 pro keys in the config file. The flash that is running 5.0-16rc has two pro keys in the config file and it works fine. When I tried to go to 5.0.5 I set it up and transffered  config file with 2 pro keys in it. After reading all of your replies I decided to try one pro key at a time. That was the problem, I deleted one of the pro keys and now all is good, it shows pro now in 5.0.5. . I appreciate all of your replies, thanks very much

Interesting.  Apparently the logic has changed a bit from v4 to v5 ===> v5 must stop looking when it finds a key file, and if it's the wrong one, it simply won't work;  v4 apparently kept looking if there were other key files present.  [Or it could be that both simply stop at the first key file, but they happened to be in the right order before, and this time they weren't]

 

But in any event, glad it's now working okay.  I'd suggest you make a note of which key belongs to which flash drive (by GUID) so you'll never have this issue again 

Tom addressed this specifically in the new beta (6b7) so going forward it should no longer be an issue.

 

 

Other notable changes:

 

- Key handling is a little different.  We now look at all the ".key" files in /boot/config directory (the 'config' directory on the usb flash).  If a Pro key is found that matches your flash GUID, then you got Pro.  If no Pro key, we look for Plus.  If no key GUID matches flash GUID, or no key files, you got Basic (free version).  Nice thing about this is that you can put all your key files for all your usb flash devices in the same directory and unRaid OS will find the right one.  NOTE: the "undocumented" feature of looking in /boot has been removed.  If your key file is in the root of your flash, you must move it to the 'config' directory.

Tom addressed this specifically in the new beta (6b7) so going forward it should no longer be an issue.

 

 

Other notable changes:

 

- Key handling is a little different.  We now look at all the ".key" files in /boot/config directory (the 'config' directory on the usb flash).  If a Pro key is found that matches your flash GUID, then you got Pro.  If no Pro key, we look for Plus.  If no key GUID matches flash GUID, or no key files, you got Basic (free version).  Nice thing about this is that you can put all your key files for all your usb flash devices in the same directory and unRaid OS will find the right one.  NOTE: the "undocumented" feature of looking in /boot has been removed.  If your key file is in the root of your flash, you must move it to the 'config' directory.

 

Nice      This certainly makes it simpler to manage your keys -- just keep all of them in a folder on your PC; and copy the whole folder to the Config folder of your flash whenever you're redoing it.