Hello',

I'm a 4.7 user. After performing a step by step clean install by "Upgrading to UnRAID v6" post, I can't boot up my system.

I didn't get a response to "grep --color lm /proc/cpuinfo" command, so I've checked and it seems that Intel dual core E2140 supports 64bit.

Other then that, I've tried 2 different flash drives. Both were formatted (One for FAT, the second for FAT32). Both made bootable.

I've checked the BIOS and the USB flash drive is marked as the first boot device.

I also tried clean pure version without my current key and *.CFG files. Did'nt helped.

Any advice?

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

Hello',

I'm a 4.7 user. After performing a step by step clean install by "Upgrading to UnRAID v6" post, I can't boot up my system.

I didn't get a response to "grep --color lm /proc/cpuinfo" command, so I've checked and it seems that Intel dual core E2140 supports 64bit.

You should have gotten a response.  Do you feel certain the command was correctly typed?  That lm is a lowercase el plus em.

 

Other then that, I've tried 2 different flash drives. Both were formatted (One for FAT, the second for FAT32). Both made bootable.

I've checked the BIOS and the USB flash drive is marked as the first boot device.

I also tried clean pure version without my current key and *.CFG files. Did'nt helped.

Any advice?

Thanks

 

Can you tell us exactly how far it got, what was the last thing to appear on the monitor?

It didn't got far. It got stuck after successful bios auto detection of hard drives leaving cursor flashing on the left top side of the screen

I've typed it correctly with lowercase el and em

It didn't got far. It got stuck after successful bios auto detection of hard drives leaving cursor flashing on the left top side of the screen

Sounds like it is trying to boot from something other than your flash drive.

And test the flash drive one more time, run Check disk on it from Windows or whatever the Mac uses.

The system is booting up from my old flash drive having Ver. 4.7

I've succeeded to run grep... It has red lm at the CPU flags.

check disk is OK.

Any other ideas?

Two ideas -

 

* Buy another flash drive, make sure it's a good quality brand name one like Sandisk, etc, and format and prep and test it.  Perhaps the 2 flash drives you tried are not compatible somehow?

 

* Take one of your flash drives (not the v4.7 one), format it, run make_bootable, prep it with v6, but do NOT copy anything else to it.  We want to see if it can boot the boot menu first, then if it can boot a fresh new unRAID with no configuration at all.

 

Can you show us the contents of the root folder of your flash drive, and the contents of the config and syslinux folders?

One of the flash drives I'v used is a 16GB Sandisk mini Cruzer. The other one is brand less.

I've already done the thing you're suggest: format it again and copy only Ver 6.0 files. Didnt helped.

Please find attached snapshots of the content (with some old *.cfg )

syslinux

config

I've copied my Ver. 4.7 flash drive content to the new flash drive. It's not working either!

I've copied my Ver. 4.7 flash drive content to the new flash drive. It's not working either!

Does the BIOS detect the flash drive? Is it set to boot from flash?

yes

One of the flash drives I'v used is a 16GB Sandisk mini Cruzer. The other one is brand less.

I've already done the thing you're suggest: format it again and copy only Ver 6.0 files. Didnt helped.

Just to be absolutely complete, since you didn't mention it, you did run make_bootable, and there were no issues with it?

 

If so, you can take it and try booting any other machine you have (just make sure the machine is allowed to boot from USB before the hard drive).  It's safe, won't change anything on the system.  All you want is to see if you can get the boot menu first, then will it boot to an unRAID menu or dialog, then you can quit it.

 

And as he said, keep rechecking/correcting the BIOS boot order.

Maybe try another USB port. Is this USB2 or USB3? Some reports of difficulty booting from USB3.

I've run make_bootable again on another machine I have.

Well, it didn't boot from the flash_drive on a windows machine . Probably I'm doing something wrong.

One of the flash drives I'v used is a 16GB Sandisk mini Cruzer. The other one is brand less.

I've already done the thing you're suggest: format it again and copy only Ver 6.0 files. Didnt helped.

Just to be absolutely complete, since you didn't mention it, you did run make_bootable, and there were no issues with it?

 

If so, you can take it and try booting any other machine you have (just make sure the machine is allowed to boot from USB before the hard drive).  It's safe, won't change anything on the system.  All you want is to see if you can get the boot menu first, then will it boot to an unRAID menu or dialog, then you can quit it.

 

And as he said, keep rechecking/correcting the BIOS boot order.

 

If I remember correctly, the user has to hit a key to actually config the flash drive.  Just executing the program does not automatically modify the flash drive to be bootable.  And you have to run the program from the flash drive as 'administrator'.  If you don't evoke with administrator privileges, the drive will NOT be modified! 

I can boot from the Flash drive on other,  windows, machine.

Weird I can't boot from any USB port on my server (unless its the old 4.7 ver. on the old 256MB flash drive)

Any more ideas?

You must not have prepared the new flash drive correctly. Try again.

I can boot from the Flash drive on other,  windows, machine.

Weird I can't boot from any USB port on my server (unless its the old 4.7 ver. on the old 256MB flash drive)

Any more ideas?

 

Let make sure I understand what you said here:  You can boot from the new flash drive on your windows computer but the same flash drive does not boot in your server?  If this is the case, I see some things to look at. 

 

First, is that new flash drive by any chance a USB3 drive?  It may be that your older hardware and/or BIOS is having an issue with USB3 hardware.

 

Second thing is double check is the BIOS and its settings.  Since you are coming from version 4.7, I assume that this is old hardware.  Are there multiple options to boot from USB?  Another thing is that it is possible that the BIOS is looking for something that is formatted in FAT and not FAT32.  (I can't remember exactly how large a partition FAT can format.)  You might check to see if the MB Manufacturer has released an update to the BIOS. 

 

Along these same lines have a look at the Booting up section about half way down this page:

 

    http://lime-technology.com/getting-started/

 

With some older MB, there were a number of options of the way a BIOS looked at USB peripherals when using them to boot from. 

 

EDIT: fixed first sebntence

Was this post a typo?

I can boot from the Flash drive on other,  windows, machine.

Weird I can't boot from any USB port on my server (unless its the old 4.7 ver. on the old 256MB flash drive)

Any more ideas?

because your post just before that was

I've run make_bootable again on another machine I have.

Well, it didn't boot from the flash_drive on a windows machine . Probably I'm doing something wrong.

Which is it?

A shot in the dark here.. but some thing stupid I did the other day..

I ran make_bootable from the the d/l source files instead of the actual make_bootable file on the flash..

Two windows open and I used the wrong file in the wrong window more than once.

Cost me a few hours trying to figure that one out.

I guess I have an old hardware (BTW, new Flash drives I've used are not USB3).

I've decided to return to Ver 4.7 on this machine, rebuild the parity, let my family be happy again...  and in a few weeks time build a modern machine running Ver 6.

HOWEVER, two of my data HD are reported missing now. Configuration isn't valid. These HD are shown on the BIOS.

What is the safest way to get everything working again?

I've set it up. Rebuilding parity is in process (Ver 4.7 unfortunately....)

Thanks for all the help