I have been running 5.0-rc8a for years without problems and have decided to upgrade to 5.6. No particular reason but it seems like a reasonable thing to do. 5.6 has a some nice features although none are critical. The problem is that I simply can not get a successful boot. I have tweaked the bios every which way without success. The boot sequence appears to always fail to find the boot drive although the bios clearly indicates that the USB drive is #1. The boot sequence always stops at the hardware monitor.

 

I am presuming that I am facing a BIOS issue but have runout of ideas.

I am running a 'clean' install. No add-ons.

I have tried booting the USB stick as Forced-FDD and as USB-HDD.

I have tried with 'Quick Boot' on and off.

I have tried various combinations of USB 2.0 support (can't fully disable 2.0 support).

 

I would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Did you upgrade to 5.0.6 or 6.0?

My error.

I should have said 5.0.6

'Screen grab' at

https://www.evernote.com/l/ACfjO7u05jBA_r24FeXGnJvcAoXhcznyYZA

'Screen grab' at

https://www.evernote.com/l/ACfjO7u05jBA_r24FeXGnJvcAoXhcznyYZA

Hmm, can you take the USB flash device out and insert it to a windows computer and run a check disk on it?  Also re run the make bootable script. 

That helped some. Check disk corrected some errors so I reformatted. Reinstalled 5.0.6 and ran make bootable.

System boots and allows login but is not getting to the network.

Ifconfig does not list an IP address.

 

Syslog at https://www.evernote.com/l/ACfaE-ChENVC263ODzxePVFDzjo5qH4xEVg

That helped some. Check disk corrected some errors so I reformatted. Reinstalled 5.0.6 and ran make bootable.

System boots and allows login but is not getting to the network.

Ifconfig does not list an IP address.

 

Syslog at https://www.evernote.com/l/ACfaE-ChENVC263ODzxePVFDzjo5qH4xEVg

Can you share the contents of your network.cfg file here? 

I ran make_bootable.bat in a windows computer, then ran chkdsk...this worked for me. I am now able to boot. Started the array and everything would appear to be working. At first I had an issue connecting with my Mac. I turned of AFP, and am now able to connect with my Mac via guest. Will have to check using my other computers/devices.

Can you share the contents of your network.cfg file here?

 

Attached.

network.cfg

Not certain but part (all?) of the problem may be related to the USB drive not being made bootable despite running the make bat file. Other than watching a successful boot is there any other way to check the USB drive and confirm that the drive is bootable?

Not certain but part (all?) of the problem may be related to the USB drive not being made bootable despite running the make bat file. Other than watching a successful boot is there any other way to check the USB drive and confirm that the drive is bootable?

 

I don't know of any other way.  The acid test is, does it boot or not.

It looks like the MTU parameter coming from your DHCP server might be a problem, it looks to be changing each time a lease is obtained and when your NIC changes the MTU it brings the network connection down and then back up which causes another DHCP request and a loop.  We can try to make dhcpd ignore the MTU value in the HDCP response.  Try adding this to the top of your go file:

 

sed -e "s/^option interface_mtu$/#option interface_mtu/g" /etc/dhcpcd.conf > /etc/dhcpcd.conf

 

I don't know if the lease is already obtained by then or maybe if it is it will stop the loop.  Another option is set a static IP address, to do that edit network.cfg in the config folder to look something like (obviously set to your addresses):

 

# Generated settings:
USE_DHCP="no"
IPADDR="10.201.0.200"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
GATEWAY="10.201.0.2"
DHCP_KEEPRESOLV="no"
DNS_SERVER1="10.201.0.2"
DNS_SERVER2=""
DNS_SERVER3=""