I removed all plugins. If I try to boot normally it starts, gets an dhcp address. I can telnet into it but no drives are listed in mnt and boot is empty.

 

I boot into safe mode and its comes up an all my dockers are running. Not sure why normal boot doesn't work.

 

I ordered a new usb drive but haven't been able to get it to boot with it yet when setting it up in Sierra. Going to try it in windows next week.

 

Thanks!

tower-diagnostics-20170121-1755.zip

List your hardware.  Safe mode starts without plugins and the GUI.  It might be a memory issue...

Strange syslog.

 

Your flash drive started out as sda, then the system reassigned sda as your 120G Hitachi.  (Except I don't see where or how it dropped off)

 

Later on your flash was reassigned as sdq.

 

After it got reassigned you started getting "bread" errors. Those errors usually happen when the flash drops offline.  Try a different USB port (ideally on a different controller -> most MB's have multiple USB controllers). 

Also, avoid using a USB3 port for the Flash drive as it seems some MB have problems when you boot from them.  UBS2 ports generally work better.  Is that 120GB Hitachi plugged into a USB port? 

Thanks for the info!

 

before this every few weeks all of a sudden my flash drive would be unwritable. I would reboot but still unwritable. I would take the the stick out and put it in my mac, make sure i could write to it and then it would boot ok.

 

Thats why I purchased a new usb drive to replace my current one from 2011, fearing it was going bad.

 

I will try other ports. I don't think the current port is usb3. I know since i upgraded to MB with uefi it mattered where I had the usb plugged in or it wouldn't boot but its been a couple years now.

 

Will report back tomorrow after I can test some things out.

Finally got my new usb device to boot.

 

Solved all my problems and booted in seconds. It was taking close to 3-4 minutes just to get past bzroot during boot.

 

If someone sees this, any idea how i can reinstall ssh? The files are missing from my old usb stick, during boot it can't find the keys. Not sure how to reset ssh.

 

Tried searching the forums but I'm not searching for the right terms i guess.

 

thanks

If someone sees this, any idea how i can reinstall ssh? The files are missing from my old usb stick, during boot it can't find the keys. Not sure how to reset ssh.

 

Tried searching the forums but I'm not searching for the right terms i guess.

 

thanks

 

I seem to recall that ssh is enabled in the default setup in the recent releases.  Try it and see if it works.  (The 'Tips amd Tweaks' plugin will allow you to disable telenet and ftp if you want to do this for security.)

@Frank1940

 

YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Your post made me remember I have the backup app installed and i went back 6 months from before I started having problems. copied my ssh files from the backup to new usb stick and ssh works!!!!!!

 

All the files were corrupt from my old drive.