I have an older Supermicro AMD-based system which has been running 5.0.6 for a long time, and has been perfectly stable.  I have a Pro license and there are nine drives in the machine.

 

I have followed the upgrade instructions to the best of my ability, wiping the USB drive and copying the relevant 5.0.6 configuration files into the relevant directories.

 

I am attaching some screen shots which seem to indicate trouble in the kernel.

 

The final message I get in the boot sequence relates to "mount can't find /dev/shm".

 

I have a specific question:  If I take this opportunity to upgrade my motherboard to an Intel-based one, am I likely to be able to access all my data?  For now, I have reverted to 5.0.6 and everything is fine.

Edited April 16, 20179 yr by ElectricMayhem

A very quick google on the AMD Opteron series of CPU's seems to indicate that it does not have the capability to run 64 bit software.  (You may want to research this a bit further if you think your processor does.)

21 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

A very quick google on the AMD Opteron series of CPU's seems to indicate that it does not have the capability to run 64 bit software.  (You may want to research this a bit further if you think your processor does.)

 

Reference the following instructions from Lime, I verified that the required flag is present.

 

1. Type "grep --color lm /proc/cpuinfo" (type it without the quotes; color is preceded by 2 hyphens)
2. Look for lm in the CPU flags listed
3. If it is there, it is 64-bit capable. If it is not, sorry, you need new hardware!

 

 

Linux 3.9.11p-unRAID.

root@freenas:~# grep --color lm /proc/cpuinfo

flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock

flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock

flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock

flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock

root@freenas:~# 

 

Edited April 16, 20179 yr by ElectricMayhem

Older boards and latest kernels don't always mix well, try v6.2.4 still available on the download page, it's based om kernel 4.4 instead of 4.9

1 hour ago, ElectricMayhem said:

I have a specific question:  If I take this opportunity to upgrade my motherboard to an Intel-based one, am I likely to be able to access all my data?

 

Oh, and the answer to this is yes, but the more recent the board the better the chance of working with latest unRAID.

Edited April 16, 20179 yr by johnnie.black

On 2017-04-16 at 1:20 PM, johnnie.black said:

Older boards and latest kernels don't always mix well, try v6.2.4 still available on the download page, it's based om kernel 4.4 instead of 4.9

 

 

No joy.  I guess I am into a hardware upgrade.  I will likely post in hardware forum to get some advice.