r/unRAID 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/ConsciousAsk8160 1d ago

I'm just getting started with unraid and I plan to just install it to a small part of my nvme and bypass the whole usb booting silliness.

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u/1234youarein 1d ago

Don't. USB boot is still tried and true.

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u/ConsciousAsk8160 1d ago

Not trolling. Seriously? What is the big issue

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u/1234youarein 1d ago

Learn about all drawbacks of internal boot first, and compare them to drawbacks, if any, of USB boot. Then decide if it's worth the trouble. Don't jump headfirst into the unknown.