Hi,

 

I just did what I thought was a routine addition of a new drive to the array - powered off nicely, added the new drive, powered on... Unraid will boot but it does not seem to be loading any of my config (I changed the hostname but it has reverted to TOWER, set a static IP but it is doing DHCP) and the webgui does not appear to be running.

 

I checked the USB and all of my config settings are still there so how do I get them to be used?

 

Thanks!

I suspect that there has been some sort of corruption on the USB stick so it is being treated as read-only and therefore configuration changes are not getting saved.  If you post a syslog we could be sure.  The normal easy fix for such an issue is to plug the USB stick into a Windows PC and let Windows 'repair' the file system.

That was a simple fix - got the config loaded and gui back but none of my drives are recognised and I'm in trial mode. I noticed that the new drive is in /dev/sdc which is where my cache drive used to be and now that is sdc - dont know if that makes a difference?

Looks like /boot is not mounted correctly - in the log i see get_key_info returning 'no such file..' and same for read_tokens which would explain why it cannot properly read my drives, any idea why i have no /boot ?

When you 'fixed' the USB drive did shutdown your Unraid server before removing the USB drive?

Yup, I was able to get my config back with:

 

mount -o noatime,nodiratime,umask=0,shortname=mixed -t vfat /dev/sde1 /boot

 

the drive has changed from sdd to sde, config now recognised but when I start the array my shares are not accessible - worried it has mixed up my parity and data drive, any easy way to tell?

It's very unlikely it's done that ... but if you're concerned, do a New Config NOW -- BEFORE you write ANYTHING to the array.

 

If you're not sure which drive is supposed to be parity, assign ALL of your drives as data drives ... then see which one shows as "unformatted" ==> that's your parity drive.    Then just do another New Config and assign everything correctly.

 

thanks for that garycase - I think I have it set up ok but good to know that you can go that far without losing data. I've put the array online and on further digging I have the correct data in /mnt/user and can scp off my files - i just cant access them via SMB...

Looks like /boot is still mounting as read only..

 

I've attached a log if that helps.

Ok, i'm back up and running. A lot my issues seems to be stemming from a bit of bad luck (usb drive constantly needing fixing!) and the fact that the entry in fstab to mount /boot by label does not seem to be working. my usb drive is hopping all over the place and i have finally got it running with a manual mount after double, triple checking for errors.

 

Thanks for all the pointers though!