[Solved] Please "insert root floppy" on reboot

[JDW 0]

I am unable to restart my unraid server. After it beings to boot it hits "please insert root floppy" message.

 

Help?

 

I am still on 5.0.5, if that helps

Edited July 2 by JDW
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[pwm 208]

That's a quite message from long ago - a time when the Linux kernel was on one floppy and you then switched to a second floppy for the initial file system.

 

Start by putting your USB drive in a Windows machine and do a chkdsk on it. Also verify that it is labeled UNRAID.

[JDW 0]

No luck with check disk. Exact same result.

 

I guess I will attempt upgrade to v6.

[tr0910 20]

You might have a damaged USB boot thumb drive. Can you boot with a newly created fresh USB thumb drive?

 

 

 

 

[JDW 0]

I think you may be right. Every time I run check disk it says some errors were fixed. Then I tried to create image of the drive and utility keeps coming back with read errors at different offsets.

[JDW 0]

Following these [1] instructions for ugrading to V6. Works as normal!

 

Thanks!

 

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