I bought myself a new motherboard, RAM and processor. The only problem is that I am only able to boot into "Safe Mode". If I try the regular one, it only loops on bzimage (it restarts constantly, after only a second or two of booting).

If I select the "Safe Mode", everything works (besides the plugins, obviously).

 

This is what I have tried:

- New USB stick with brand new (clean) installation

- acpi=off, acpi=forced, acpi=ht

- nolapic noapic

- Switch places on RAM (altough, I have not tried to use the other channel, will try that tomorrow)

 

The motherboard is a ASRock Z170 Extreme 6, with a i5-6600 Skylake attached.

See attachment for diagnostics. Any help appreciated!

bart-diagnostics-20160407-2222.zip

Memtest from the boot menu would be a good place to start

 

Thanks for your answer, but I've already tried that (forgot to mention it in the post..). As far as I could see, there were no errors.

Have you tried booting normally to the USB without and hard drives connected to the motherboard?

I notice that the syslog seems to be full of errors with the loop0 device which if I remember correctly is what is used to mount the docker.img file.    It is possible that file is corrupt and so it might be worth stopping docker and removing that file and see if that helps.

Apart from the corrupted docker.img (as already commented), I don't see anything wrong.  Which makes me wonder about your plugin setup.  You may want to make a backup of your flash drive, then delete all plugin folders from config/plugins and see if it boots.  If so, start adding them back until it fails, by either installing them fresh or copying a plugin's folder back and rebooting.

Thanks for all the help!

I have now tried to boot without any harddrives attaches, which did not change anything (still "looping reboots").

 

I have tried to delete the plugin folder (and as much else as I could) previously, but will try it again without harddrives attached.

Tried a brand new USB with a fresh install of Unraid now, with no harddrives attached. Still keeps rebooting..

I'm starting to think it might be some BIOS setting or something. Anything particular I should look for? Anything that is error prone on motherboards and Unraid?

Try setting your BIOS to defaults, then change the boot order to the flash drive and see how far that gets you, no hard drives plugged in.

It gets me to the same point as previously (past the blue menu-screen, then starts to load bzimage and back to the blue menu-screen)

Sounds like something definitely wrong with your USB drive to me. What version of Unraid are you installing? If 6.19 try 6.18 just for fun, have you tried different USB ports, front, back?

I have tried some different ports (both USB 2.0 and 3.0). The funny thing is that everything seems to work when I enter Safe Mode.

I'm at 6.1.9, but I will try a different version. I'm using a USB-stick that worked on my old server, and I'm also testing on a different stick now.

I don''t know what safe mode disables, but it may not like something about your BIOS or hardware that disabling it in safe mode allows it to work.