zechocolate_moose Posted January 9, 2023 Share #1 Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) I've been using XPEnology for about 3 years. I currently have JUN's bootloader 1.03b and a 6.x system that has been up for quite some time. I was looking to upgrade it to the new 7.x version. I've created 4 different bootable USBs - all different sizes, makes, and models. I've tried both legacy and UEFI images. UEFI image doesn't work at all for me. When I use the legacy image, it will boot to a GRUB prompt with a flashing cursor. Nothing else happens. They keyboard doesn't respond to any inputs at all (not even ctrl+alt+del). I let it sit for almost 2 hours waiting to see if anything happened, and nothing ever did. I've tried it with my test drive plugged and unplugged. I've tried the onboard Realtek NIC enabled, disabled, and unplugged. I always keep it disabled as I have an Intel dual 1GB NIC that I use instead in a bond. I've tried the dual NIC removed, installed and network cabled plugged in, installed and network cables unplugged, with the onboard NIC enabled and disabled. I've dropped down to a 0.9.2 version of the loader for the sake of trying a different one, and it does the same thing. I run all Unifi equipment on my network and it isn't registering as connected anywhere, so I'm unable to SSH into it either. Everything works fine in the "old" JUN loader. Any ideas on how to get this thing to boot to the GUI instead of GRUB? By the way, it isn't the command line grub prompt, it is just the word "GRUB" in all caps with a flashing cursor to the right of it. *EDIT* My setup is as follows: AMD Athlon XP2 16GB RAM Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H 5 3TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives in a RAID 5 array with a hot spare Intel Dual 1GB NIC PCIe card For testing purposes, the RAID array is disconnected and I'm using a single 512GB SSD as my storage drive. Thanks in advance! Edited January 9, 2023 by zechocolate_moose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zechocolate_moose Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share #2 Posted January 10, 2023 So, I've tried ARPL now and get the EXACT same behavior. I've tried all the same troubleshooting steps as above. Nothing is any different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zechocolate_moose Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share #3 Posted January 10, 2023 I've popped my Jun's loader back in and installed my drives back into my server. I'm back up and running and am going to wait to see if anyone has any suggestions before I try to go any further. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zechocolate_moose Posted January 13, 2023 Author Share #4 Posted January 13, 2023 Admins: Please close this topic I've been on the fence for some time, but I finally did it. I purchased a DS1522+ and migrated my drives to it. It was amazingly simple to do. I'm running on Synology hardware now. I'm thinking about selling off my old rig and letting someone else experiment with XPEnology. I've really enjoyed it and it worked very well for me. I just decided to go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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