October 16, 201015 yr Setting up my first unRAID server using 4.5.6. Followed the instructions at http://lime-technology.com/support/unraid-server-installation to the letter. Very pleased with how simple everything was, but after booting I found I could not access the server management utility via name. Tried to access via ip address and found my router didn't see the server and (not surprising) the server hadn't been assigned an address by the DHCP function of the router. Server can't ping the router either (192.168.1.1). For what it's worth, at one point during the boot process, the LED on the port of my router connected to the unRAID turns from blue to green, indicating the port was downgraded from 1000 to 10/100. Log tells me rc.inet1.conf failed to find /boot/config/network.cfg and /var/tmp/network.cfg. Sure enough - no /boot/config directory at all. I see from the forum that not having the flash drive label set to UNRAID will cause something like this. My flash label is definitely UNRAID. At least that's what Windows 7 tells me. /config/network.cfg contains: USE_DHCP=yes IPADDR= NETMASK= GATEWAY= Mobo is a Supermicro C2SEE running a Celeron E3300 with 2 sticks of Kingston KVR1333D3N9/2G At this time there are no hard drives attached. Just have the board set up on my bench to make sure the hardware was working before proceeding. Syslog and dmesg are attached. Any ideas, anyone? I'm stumped... Jim syslog.txt dmesg.txt
October 16, 201015 yr Author Solved my own problem. Is this a documentation glitch? Both the download page (http://lime-technology.com/support/unraid-server-installation) and the instructions in the wiki (http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation) say that when you are preparing the flash drive from a Windows 7 system, when you format the flash you should leave the type of file system defaulted. That makes it FAT. I was reading elsewhere about using FAT32 for the flash. So I reformatted my flash as FAT32 and it worked! So is the documentation wrong, or should unRAID have worked with FAT, too? Jim
October 16, 201015 yr Solved my own problem. Is this a documentation glitch? Both the download page (http://lime-technology.com/support/unraid-server-installation) and the instructions in the wiki (http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation) say that when you are preparing the flash drive from a Windows 7 system, when you format the flash you should leave the type of file system defaulted. That makes it FAT. I was reading elsewhere about using FAT32 for the flash. So I reformatted my flash as FAT32 and it worked! So is the documentation wrong, or should unRAID have worked with FAT, too? Jim It works with FAT too. It really depends on if your BIOS on your motherboard can boot from it or not. Glad you got it working. Joe L.
October 17, 201015 yr I had a similar problem but realized that the volume label wasn't actually written to my thumb drive. Now it seems to be working and now I am getting excited!
February 27, 201115 yr I setup my unraid box today. My win7 defaulted to fat 32 when I formatted my flash drive.
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