Hi all,

 

I have some issue for installing unraid 6.0rc3

The first problem ; I had a issue of making a bootable USB drive for installing unraid, named the drive to UNRAID (yes capital letters) and runned the script as administrator on Win7. ERROR drive must be named as UNRAID (by using capital letters which I did...) formatted as FAT and/or FAT32, no success and gave up. Lucky enough I have a Mac AIR and tried it there, double clicked the script on Mac, script runs perfectly with no problem ( very strange ? some MS Windows bug?)

 

Second problem; yep the famous kernel panic - not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0 0) 

I have searched on the forum about this problem. some said setup the USB in bios as FIXED or forced as FDD/HDD/USB-HDD etc.

Refference : http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_Manual_6#Booting_Up  and

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20557.0

 

It didn't worked for me,  I thought maybe the USB thumbstick is unsupported/corrupted? So I took another USB drive to test it out. Unfortunately no luck.

I have tested with Sandisk Cruzer Switch 4GB and Lexar JumpDrive Secure II Plus 8GB.

 

My snapshot

Does the boot menu appear? Select Memtest and run overnight.

 

Do you have another computer the test with? Even a laptop is fine just to test the flash drives.

Does the boot menu appear? Select Memtest and run overnight.

 

Do you have another computer the test with? Even a laptop is fine just to test the flash drives.

 

Yes the bootmenu shows up, I can choose the Memtest

 

*EDIT*

 

Alright i'm freaking out a bit.. just WTF happened?

I ran the Memtest86 within 5 minutes full of errors and 2 minutes later my screen went to this

 

Turned off the PC, power on again, memtest86, and surprisingly 30 minutes uptime with no errors ! I was like whaaat ? shut down pc and this time I choosed in the bootmenu UNRAID.

And ... what the ...

Tower Login :

Password :

 

Heh??? why does it work now?  I don't get it, really confused here, shall I RMA my RAM or not? Suggestions?

I would suspect something is seriously wrong with your hardware.  Is this a new computer/build?  You might want to double-check that all of the cables and memory chips are securely plugged in.  Make sure that the CPU heatsink and its fan were properly mounted and connected to the motherboard.

 

Allow that memtest to run overnight after you have completed the physical inspection of your system.  That will test the CPU and memory over a long enough period of time to make sure that you don't have some marginal component(s) that will give you problems down the road.  (Back in an earlier time-- 1990-1995 time period, all computer builders 'burned-in' new builds for a minimum of 72 hours before delivering the completed system to the customer!)  Today, most people are much too quick in thinking that a computer is 'good' if it boots to the point where it complains about not finding a boot-disk ! 

Yes this is a fresh build, new mobo, new cpu, except the RAM.

I will run it overnight and see how it is tomorrow.

80 passes no single ERRORS, I guess it's safe now?

No RMA needed I think, maybe the RAM module was not fitted properly in their socket or some dust came in the pins?

80 passes no single ERRORS, I guess it's safe now?

No RMA needed I think, maybe the RAM module was not fitted properly in their socket or some dust came in the pins?

 

Boot up unRAID and see what happens. 

 

I would preclear all of the disks that you are going to be using in your array.  That will burn both the  system in and the disks to verify that you don't have any remaining problems.  (Most of the experienced users will run at least one preclear cycle.  Many of those same people swear that you should really run three cycles to really thoroughly test all disks before adding them to the array.  Hard drives that fail within a hundred hours after being placed in service are not that uncommon!)

 

See here for the preclear script:

 

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