JDW Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) 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, 2018 by JDW marking solved Quote Link to comment
pwm Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
JDW Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 No luck with check disk. Exact same result. I guess I will attempt upgrade to v6. Quote Link to comment
tr0910 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 You might have a damaged USB boot thumb drive. Can you boot with a newly created fresh USB thumb drive? Quote Link to comment
JDW Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
JDW Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 Following these [1] instructions for ugrading to V6. Works as normal! Thanks! [1] Quote Link to comment
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