Hello, I have been running 4.4 for a while now, figure it was time to update. What is the best method to do this ?

 

Basically what i did was made a BACKUP of my 4.4 Flash drive. Deleted everything on it but my .key file, and then copied 4.5.4 onto my flash. The flash boots, but after the ....... (dots) loading bzroot, just locks up on say the 5 - 8th string of dots.

 

Is there something I am doing wrong updating my flash ?

 

any help appreciated, thanks

Hello, I have been running 4.4 for a while now, figure it was time to update. What is the best method to do this ?

 

Basically what i did was made a BACKUP of my 4.4 Flash drive. Deleted everything on it but my .key file, and then copied 4.5.4 onto my flash. The flash boots, but after the ....... (dots) loading bzroot, just locks up on say the 5 - 8th string of dots.

 

Is there something I am doing wrong updating my flash ?

 

any help appreciated, thanks

you did not need to delete everything from the flash drive. so,

Step 1.  Put your old files back on it and see if you can boot successfully.

  Once you can, you may continue with step2.

 

Step 2.  Rename two files on your flash drive.

  Rename bzroot to bzroot.440

  Rename bzimage to bzimage.440

 

Step 3. unzip 4.5.4 on your PC.

 

Step 4. Copy only the new bzroot and bzimage files from the new distribution to the flash drive

 

If you copied the files by moving the flash drive to your PC, safely eject it and move it back to your server and reboot.

If you copied the files by browsing to \\tower\flash using window's file-explorer, use the management web-interface for unRAID to stop the server and reboot.

 

Joe L.

It seems on the newer versions of unraid, you need to redo the syslinux.exe step with the newest version of syslinux since the bzimage is larger than the older one supports.

Does the syslinux step leave all the other files intact?

 

I battled for a many days getting some features working with my initial setup ( APC UPS and email notification ) and would hate to have to do that again.  Im going from 4.5 beta12.  Have to review and make sure no issues exist with Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Marvell 6480 8 Channel SAS/SATA RAID PCI-E Card and Gigabyte MA74GM-S2 Motherboards first 

 

For others reference, here is the step Brit is referring to:

 

Step 2 Extract the syslinux.exe  executable and copy to a simple directory, for example, c:\.  Then run it by clicking on Start/Run; in the dialog box enter:

 

    c:\syslinux.exe -ma f:

 

(Instead of c:\ use whatever directory you downloaded syslinux to, and instead of f: use whatever drive letter Windows mounted your Flash on).

 

The syslinux tool will create a hidden system file named ldlinux.sys on the Flash and make it boot-able.

Yes, it leaves everything else untouched.

 

Just do NOT format the drive again... that would erase all your files on the flash drive, and with them, your configuration.

Can you run the syslinux.exe straight to the flash drive connected to the server?

 

c:\syslinux -ma \\tower\flash

 

 

Can you run the syslinux.exe straight to the flash drive connected to the server?

 

c:\syslinux -ma \\tower\flash

 

 

I don't think so... but then I never tried.  Let us know if it creates a mini-black-hole or area-wide brown-out.

I am upgrading from 4.4.2 and I don't think it is necessary for upgrading from a version that new.  I downloaded the syslinux.exe that is currently found on the lime website and it is the exact same file that I downloaded 18 months or so ago...  I didn't bother to re-run it.  I just copied over the newer files, rebooted and things look good so far.

 

Chris

Follow up, you do not need to rerun syslinux.exe when upgrading from 4.4.2 to 4.5.4.  I completed the upgrade, and everything is running just fine without that step.