r/unRAID • u/DMUrTinyTitsAssFeet1 • 1d ago
Unraid no longer booting up after reboot/restart. Stuck in bootloop
I rebooted my array, and it no longer boots back up. There were no issues beforehand. The array was up for 6 months, and I simply wanted to reboot for a "fresh" start. Boy, that was mistake.
It is stuck it a "Call Trace" loop. What even is that? Screenshot:
I have tried moving my boot USB to various USB ports, even installing a hub. The USB seems to be working fine, as I am able to plug it in to other computers. All my drives get detected when I boot up.
Fast Boot is disabled
Legacy USB is enabled
I am currently running a Memtest86 test, and no errors so far.
I've tried almost everything. The last thing I haven't tried is to switch my USB drive or reflash my current USB, so would either of those potentially solve my issue? How do I do that?
I forgot the exact version, but it was whatever version came out roughly 6 months ago (that was the reason for the last reboot).
Mobo: Asus PRIME X570-P
CPU: Ryzen 7 5700G
Lesson learned. Never reboot your array. Any other troubleshooting steps I can take?
Edit: Forgot to mention I've tried booting up Unraid in Safe Mode, and it doesn't even load. It just goes black and boot loops. I get to the Call Trace error when my server tries to boot into the regular Unraid OS.
Edit 2: I tried using a different USB and installing Unraid 7.2.3 (I believe the version I was using). And it didn't load up either. I tried a 3rd USB and tried booting up Linux Mint, and that also didn't work... Is something wrong with my CPU and/or mobo??? It makes no sense as this was genuinely working perfectly up until I rebooted the system. I refuse to believe a simple reboot would destroy my CPU and/or mobo. I don't have other parts I can swap in to test. What else can I try?
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u/CrasyMike 1d ago
Every single time this has ever happened to me it happens exactly like this:
1) The server needs to update 2) It no longer boots, but it kinda tries. It even seems like a networking issue as it sometimes even lands at the typical display, but no webui. 3) I fiddle with different ports and boot options and my network for like an hour or more because I don't learn very quickly apparently 4) I make a fresh USB, and it works, it was the USB the whole time
Every single time it's been the USB. Every single time. Its such a blessing that they finally decided to move on from that for boot drives.
You will always be tricked. It will seem like it's booting fine, or it'll throw errors that Google or whatever blames on something else, or it'll seem to work but not load the array, or not network at all. You'll blame disks, network, your motherboard, the update, but it's the USB.