Help! I'm at a complete loss as to what to do next. I had recently replaced a drive and parity-sync/data rebuild had completed successfully. I had also installed 2 new drives in the machine and was running pre-clear on both when, overnight, I got notification that my services had stopped. I was out of town til the afternoon and when I got home, had hoped that the server had simply rebooted or something and would just need to start the array.

 

Unfortunately, I have no access to unraid. No gui, no ssh, no telnet. Checked the router and the server doesn't show up. I used IPMI to power cycle the router but to no avail. Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Try to get the diags by typing diagnostics on the console, if you can't or it doesn't work force a reboot.

From the console from IPMI, I'm just getting a repeating "Auto retry all boot devices", I'm thinking my USB boot device is toast?

7 minutes ago, captainnapalm said:

I'm thinking my USB boot device is toast?

Possibly, test it on another computer.

1 hour ago, johnnie.black said:

Possibly, test it on another computer.

What's the best way to do this? I plugged it into my desktop and set it as the top boot disk in my BIOS, but  machine went straight to Windows. I can access the files on the USB stick, but not sure how to tell if it's toast or not.  I could maybe try running make_bootable.bat again?

Best way to test would be booting from it using a different PC.

Alright, got it booted properly into GUI mode. Seems to be working, guess I'll try it in a different USB port on my server and see if it boots from there.

So, I was able to get my USB boot device to boot on my desktop, but I am having no luck with it in my server. I've tried every USB port. My keyboard works in the USB, but not the boot device. I've checked the BIOS to ensure it is the selected device. Not sure whether this is pointing to a motherboard issue, or a USB issue, or something else.

 

Is it worth it to boot my desktop with this device and run diagnostics there? Not sure that would tell us anything.

Just to be clear, this system has been running almost flawlessly for 2+ years. The USB ports seem to be working as the keyboard seems to work in any port. I had a Windows USB device lying around so I figured I would try booting the system from that, but that didn't work. I can see the USB device in the boot menu, the system just doesn't want to boot from it.  Here are the specs.

 

PSU - Seasonic SS-400L2U

Motherboard - Supermicro X8DTi-F (X8DT3)

CPU - Intel Xeon E5620 (x2)

RAM - 24GB

Any chance you excluded the USB controller that unRAID uses in syslinux?

On 9/24/2018 at 3:57 PM, WashingtonMatt said:

Any chance you excluded the USB controller that unRAID uses in syslinux?

I don't think so, since I don't know what that is and it happened unaided in the middle of the night.