Hi I am having trouble adding a netowrk card onto my unraid box.

 

I run an unraid 6.7.2 box with a Xeon on an Asrock X99 Extreme4 motherboard.

The machine is running without a graphics card, thus headless.

The systemhas been running great for about two years, and gave received multiple upgrades since first build.

Now i tried to upgrade the system with a dedicated 10Gbit network card, but suddently the system will not boot.

I put a dedicated graphics card in, and it booted without a hitch.

But once i remove the graphics card unraid won´t boot.

 

Anyone have experienced the same issue?

 

The network card is a Mellanox Connect-X 2.

 

Catch-22.  You can't tell why it's not booting without having a video card installed.  Only thing that possibly pops into my head is

 

• In the BIOS disable stop on all errors or
• Move the Mellanox to a different slot

Edited August 18, 20196 yr by Squid

22 hours ago, Squid said:

Catch-22.  You can't tell why it's not booting without having a video card installed.  Only thing that possibly pops into my head is

 

• In the BIOS disable stop on all errors or
• Move the Mellanox to a different slot

Yeah it's a bit of trouble.

I realized that the mellanox added a secondary boot option onto the boot priorities, so i tried disabling that option, so only the flash device is used, but no luck with this either.

 

I have searched for the option to disable stop on all errors, but have no luck finding such options. Maybe you have an idea on where to find it?

I have tried two different PCI-E slots, with no luck.

I tried switching the Mellanox ConnectX 2 card out with an Intel X540-T2 card, but experience the same issue.

 

For now i will have to waste the extra power needed for a dedicated graphics card. Am using a passively cooled GT 210.

Pls try turn on CSM, if need UEFI boot, just set CSM-UEFI only, otherwise turn on legacy.

 

Then config correct bootable device order and remove the GPU.

Edited August 21, 20196 yr by Benson