November 1, 200916 yr Hello all. In brief: the system worked for a day. Then the share & config page became unavailable. Now it won't boot to UNRAID. ... I prepared my USB drive per the instructions, modified my BIOS, and booted into unRAID. Lo and behold it worked with pretty much no fuss! I set the drives, it built parity, and I copied some data over. All good. I shut down the system a couple of times to enhance unRAID with unmenu and all is well. unMenu works fine. I tried creating a couple of user shares. OK. fine. Then, wait. Not so fine. The share is no longer accessible. I used to be able to type http://tower to get to the config screen but no more. I can also no longer type \\tower to access the files. I don't really know what to do at this point. I try typing shutdown on the actual RAID machine. it says I need to enter an option and time, so I try Shutdown -r NOW. It says it is shutting down now. Nothing happens. I eventually turn the power off. Now, the computer won't boot into unRAID. Instead, it gives the message: BOOT DISK FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. Huh? Nothing has changed in the BIOS (I checked). I load defaults from the bios and reconfigure again. Still the same thing. I read the troubleshooting section and a couple of forum best of posts. I decide to Backup the USB drive and make a fresh one as it seems that as long as I know which drive is the parity drive and the correct slots of the other drives my data will be fine. I format it, run c:\syslinux.exe -ma g:, and copy over the unRAID files. Same error message: BOOT DISK FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I try formatting with the HP utility, running syslinux.exe, and copying the files. No dice. I note that this is the same message I get when no usb drive at all is plugged in to the computer. The USB disk I was using was a 2GB Lexar from Newegg. I try my roommates 512 megabyte sandisk Cruzer with the steps above. NADA. I don't really get it. Why would it work, then go down while running only to not boot again? The BIOS is the same and the disk is "fresh," and there was another disk tried. If it never boot, I would understand. This has me more flustered. This is especially annoying for the following reasons: 1. I moved over important data to the array after it was running for a while. I am not so concerned about this as I know that unRAID doesn't use striping and therefore I could probably mount the disks using some reiser utility and get my data back. Even so, it makes me uneasy. 2. I just spent a bunch of money on gear for a case and drive racks in order to accommodate the unRAID server pro license I was about to buy. And though I can ditch the system, I would prefer not to. I really want to get this working. Please help. Thanks.
November 1, 200916 yr It sounds as if your flash drive is just not selected as the boot device. Some motherboard BIOS try to "help" you by making the most recently added hard disk the boot device. You will need to reset it to be the flash drive if it does. Joe L.
November 1, 200916 yr Loading defaults won't correct the boot order. Go into the bios and make sure array drives are not included as boot drives. When you add or change a drive, like switching lexar for sandisk, at restart go back into the bios and correct the boot drives again. db
November 1, 200916 yr You know, there may be some actual bugs crawling inside the computer case. Have you checked that? Also, some BIOSes allow you to press F11 (or F12) during boot and give you a list of all possible boot devices to choose. When you do that, does your USB flash key even show up on that list? If so, can you select it there and see if it boots? Purko
November 2, 200916 yr Author Thank you all for the replies. It was a bios thing. I had disabled enable additional boot devices, which apparently was what was allowing my USB drive to boot in the first place. So now unRAID boots again. However, I still can't access it from the network. I have a fresh unRAID flash drive, so everything should be stock., yet http://tower doesn't work. The problem originally started when the array went down and was inaccessible on the network. So, now I can get it to boot, but it is still inaccessible to the network. I will look through the FAQS some more and see if there isn't anything relevant. I have gone in to my router and looked at the ip address and tried to connect to that as well, but with no success.
November 2, 200916 yr Thank you all for the replies. It was a bios thing. I had disabled enable additional boot devices, which apparently was what was allowing my USB drive to boot in the first place. So now unRAID boots again. However, I still can't access it from the network. I have a fresh unRAID flash drive, so everything should be stock., yet http://tower doesn't work. The problem originally started when the array went down and was inaccessible on the network. So, now I can get it to boot, but it is still inaccessible to the network. I will look through the FAQS some more and see if there isn't anything relevant. I have gone in to my router and looked at the ip address and tried to connect to that as well, but with no success. When you type ls /boot do you see the bzroot and bzimage files? If not, perhaps you did not put the UNRAID label back on the flash drive file-system when you rebuilt it. If you do see the files, what do you get when you type ifconfig eth0 Joe L.
November 2, 200916 yr What IP addresses are there on your local network? Also, what does it show when from your console you say: cat /boot/config/network.cfg
November 2, 200916 yr Author When you type ls /boot do you see the bzroot and bzimage files? If not, perhaps you did not put the UNRAID label back on the flash drive file-system when you rebuilt it. If you do see the files, what do you get when you type ifconfig eth0 Joe L. When I type: Is /boot I get: -bash: is: command not found When I Type: ifconfig eth0 I get: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:38:1b:2B43:88 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets :0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuien:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interupt:22 Base address: 0xc000
November 2, 200916 yr Author What IP addresses are there on your local network? Also, what does it show when from your console you say: cat /boot/config/network.cfg LAN Clients: Active Clients Host Name IP Address MAC Address Conn. Count Ratio [4096] * 192.168.1.254 00:13:B6:02:4B:AF 2 0% * 192.168.1.136 00:08:89:EE:89:52 2 0% NewBox 192.168.1.108 00:22:B0:EC:E3:B7 0 0% MediaCenter 192.168.1.112 00:50:8D:B6:CB:1C 162 4% I tried connecting to all of them except my computer. nothing. When I type: cat /boot/config/network.cfg I get: cat: /boot/config/network.cfg: No such file or directory Thanks to everyone for all of your help!
November 2, 200916 yr When I type: Is /boot I get: -bash: is: command not found ^^ That's not supposed to be a capital "i" but a small "L" as in "list" When I Type: ifconfig eth0 I get: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:38:1b:2B43:88 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets :0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuien:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interupt:22 Base address: 0xc000 Your unraid box is clearly not configured with a IP address/netmask. You need to edit the network.cfg file that's in the /config/ directory of your flash drive. If that file/directory don't exist, then you didn't properly uncompress the unraid software to your flash drive. Or you forgot to label the unraid partition as UNRAID
November 2, 200916 yr Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:38:1b:2B43:88 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets :0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuien:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interupt:22 Base address: 0xc000 Your unraid box is clearly not configured with a IP address/netmask. You can get it up and running (temporarily) by typing on the console: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.179 netmask 255.255.255.0 up ...then from another computer point its web browser to http://192.168.1.179 and see what happens. If you see the unraid main page, use it to set up its desired IP addres from then on. Purko
November 2, 200916 yr Author Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:38:1b:2B43:88 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets :0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuien:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interupt:22 Base address: 0xc000 Your unraid box is clearly not configured with a IP address/netmask. You can get it up and running (temporarily) by typing on the console: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.179 netmask 255.255.255.0 up ...then from another computer point its web browser to http://192.168.1.179 and see what happens. If you see the unraid main page, use it to set up its desired IP addres from then on. Purko The system took the command as indicated by it not giving me an error message and displaying the command line again. However, when I point another computer to 192.168.1.179 it will not connect.
November 2, 200916 yr Author When I type: Is /boot I get: -bash: is: command not found ^^ That's not supposed to be a capital "i" but a small "L" as in "list" When I Type: ifconfig eth0 I get: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:38:1b:2B43:88 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets :0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuien:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interupt:22 Base address: 0xc000 Your unraid box is clearly not configured with a IP address/netmask. You need to edit the network.cfg file that's in the /config/ directory of your flash drive. If that file/directory don't exist, then you didn't properly uncompress the unraid software to your flash drive. Or you forgot to label the unraid partition as UNRAID Thanks! When I type is/boot I get another command prompt the same as the one I had prior to typing the command: root@Tower:~# The partition is labeled as UNRAID. I shut the computer down (BTW, what is the proper way to shut down the console when you don't have remote access on a web browser?), and plugged the usb drive in to another computer. My network.cfg file: USE_DHCP=yes IPADDR= NETMASK= GATEWAY= I changed it to: # Generated network settings USE_DHCP=no IPADDR=192.168.1.179 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 I'll try that now.
November 2, 200916 yr Author First off, thanks so much for all the help. You guys are ridiculously responsive. I wish I had that kind of support for all customer service issues, let alone for a product that I am trying and have paid nothing for. I have a supported Gigabyte LAN card coming tomorrow. I'm going to try that and see if it makes any difference. At that point I'll go back to responding to your suggestions. At the moment am easing my troubled mind with regards to losing the data I put on unRAID before it stopped working by running HawkPE to launch a live linux environment to RAM, then copying the data from my drive to a FAT32 USB drive. My 90 GB of precious data is backing up right now. Afterward I can resume trying to get unRAID to work without having to stress about losing anything. Like I said, I really want to get this to work as I just spent a couple of hundred dollars buying new gear for a 14 drive unRAID system. Thanks again and I'll post later.
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