Booting from USB

[MrMooreIOM]

Hey Guys,

 

I'm having issues booting, every time I reboot the Unraid Server I get "LMZA Data is Corrupt. System Halted" when booting.  

 

At first I thought it was the current USB (Its old) So I bought a new Kingston 8GB USB, Used the USB Creator tool to deploy the backup onto the stick (as per guide https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Changing_The_Flash_Device) 

 

So After the above I now get  "Non-system disk or disk error"

 

Struggling with this and would appreciate any assistance I can get..

 

Cheers 😊

Edited September 2, 2019 by MrMooreIOM
Updating Typo

[MrMooreIOM]

Any update would be appreciated right now... 

[itimpi]

It sounds as if an error is occurring trying to read the USB drive.    If you can plug it into a USB2 port rather than USB3 as USB2 seems to be more reliable during the boot process.     It might also be worth trying to create the USB2 disk on a different machine as sometimes there can be problems writing the USB stick reliably on some systems.

[Vr2Io]

Pls confirm system pass running memory test.

[MrMooreIOM]

Just now, Benson said:

Pls confirm system pass running memory test.

System passes Memory test no problem.

 

6 minutes ago, itimpi said:

It sounds as if an error is occurring trying to read the USB drive.    If you can plug it into a USB2 port rather than USB3 as USB2 seems to be more reliable during the boot process.     It might also be worth trying to create the USB2 disk on a different machine as sometimes there can be problems writing the USB stick reliably on some systems.

I'm using a HP Proliant Gen 8 Microserver which only has USB2 ports. the issue is very strange as it boots no bother when i create a fresh USB. then after the first reboot its corrupt.

 

Thanks,

[MrMooreIOM]

As mentioned, So I downloaded the unraid files of the site, copied over the bz* files and put that in and its booted with no issues.

 

 

 

However after a reboot I get the following;

 

 

So I Thought the USB must be on its way out as its old and could be dodgy. So I took a backup of the USB and created a backup USB using the unRAID USB creator. 

 

 

So I boot the New USB and get the following; 

 

 

I then thought this was a disk issue and tried to run the makebootable as admin. but the same happens.

 

any ideas would be greatly appreciated as I cant reboot my machine without having to rebuild the USB stick...

 

 

Edited September 4, 2019 by MrMooreIOM

[Squid]

Did you make sure the new USB is set to boot first

Sent from my NSA monitored device

[Vr2Io]

Could you try create the stick again, then

 

1. boot to menu, then press array key, and reboot to check still bootable.

 

2. Boot unraid to safe mode and then reboot to check still bootable.

 

Anyway, narrow down what make stick corrupt.

 

Edited September 4, 2019 by Benson

[MrMooreIOM]

22 hours ago, Squid said:

Did you make sure the new USB is set to boot first

Sent from my NSA monitored device
 

Yes Boot sequence is set to boot from USB 1st. 

 

21 hours ago, Benson said:

Could you try create the stick again, then

 

1. boot to menu, then press array key, and reboot to check still bootable.

 

2. Boot unraid to safe mode and then reboot to check still bootable.

 

Anyway, narrow down what make stick corrupt.

 

What exactly do you mean by "array key"? And yes I will try these steps once confirmed array key..

 

Cheers

[Vr2Io]

10 minutes ago, MrMooreIOM said:

What exactly do you mean by "array key"? And yes I will try these steps once confirmed array key..

 

Cheers

Sorry, typo, arrow key

Edited September 5, 2019 by Benson

[MrMooreIOM]

21 hours ago, Benson said:

Could you try create the stick again, then

 

1. boot to menu, then press array key, and reboot to check still bootable.

 

2. Boot unraid to safe mode and then reboot to check still bootable.

 

Anyway, narrow down what make stick corrupt.

 

 

1 - Pass

2 - Pass

3 - Pass

 

After 5 continuous reboots doing the above it seems to have resolved itself lol.

 

Thanks for your assistance 😀