I have been working on a new OMV6 build on my spare PC which I'm testing.
When I inserted my OMV system flash drive from my spare PC to main PC, I can see its boots to the login but for some reason its not connecting to network (whereas it did on spare PC) and therefore I can't access the OMV GUI.
I tried to configure the network interface through omv-firstaid but that didn't work.
Is there any other setting I can check?
I'm pretty certain the hardware/network cable work fine.
I did all of that. In the end I decided to start all over again on a new PC and migrate to OMV6.
Hi - recently my OMV (run off a USB storage device) is not booting and beeps. I have a Dell Vostro desktop which has always had a broken internal hard drive which I believed to be the cause, so I removed it.
I tried OMV off another PC and it seems to be working fine, so the issue is not the USB drive.
I then went into the BIOS of the Dell Vostro and disabled all devices from the boot sequence except for USB drives.
However, when I try to boot I get a 'internal hard drive failure. press F1 to continue or F2 to enter the BIOS'.
If I press F1 it seems to continue to boot OMV but as this is a headless system I can't keep pressing F1 to continue.
Is there a way to circumvent the 'press F1' option and that it boots automatically?
Not sure why if all of the other boot devices arer disabled and the internal HDD has been removed, why its looking for this hard drive.
So it happened again. My working clone shutdown successfully but when it tried to reboot in the morning, it wouldn't boot (just said to insert a bootable media). Once I manually powered down and powered up it rebooted sucessfully.
I've check the BIOS settings and all looks ok.
So not sure why I have to physically power down/power up compared to the wake on LAN not working
Display MoreSince you already have a working clone (on the 32GiB USB stick) , you can try to shrink the partition on the 16GiB USB stick and create another image:
Boot a Gparted Live ISO via an extra USB disk (unplug ALL drives unneeded)
After boot is complete, plug the drive you want to shrink.
Shrink the partition size to -1Gb.
Reboot with the shrunk USB stick and see if it boots normally.
Check if the partition size was, in fact reduced by -1Gb:
fdisk -l /dev/sdX <<<<---- X is the letter of the drive. If ALL drive's are still unplugged, it will be a
If it was, power down and make another image on Windows (I know Win32DiskImager has the checkbox to Read Only Allocated Partitions which means only the partition size will be created. Don't know if UsbImager does that).
Try to flash that image to the other 16GiB USB Stick.
Worked?!?
Test it to see if it boots OK.
Thanks Soma. I'm going to try that in the next few days.
Interestingly my 32gb working clone was plugged in yesterday and my omv shutdowns overnight and reboots in the morning.
This normally works fine on my master 16gb omv but this morning my 32gb working clone didn't boot up (error message said to insert a bootable media). I manually powered down / powered on and it booted ok. So not sure if the wake on LAN settings causes a problem but will see again tomorrow
I'm not sure if Windows uses GB or GiB and if those might be different for the two. Are the and destination flashdrives the same model? If one byte less could be causing this. I usually image the smallest drive and write to larger drives.
Yes different models. I guess 16gb is not really 16gb and it may be that my working system image (coming from 16gb) is bigger in size than the writing flash drive.
I'll leave it for now as I have got it working on my 32gb .
Thanks to Soma, Zoki, Ryecoaaron and geaves - what a dream team to have had to assist me !
Are they the exact same size? I don't remember if usbimager will block you from writing a larger image to a smaller drive.
The write image shows as 15.3gb whereas the flashdrive shows as 15.7gb
So as update, I've used usbimager 1.0.8 this time.
I got my working 16gb omv system to backup to my 32gb flashdrive which is working.
But I cannot get another 16gb flashdrive to successfully write the image using usbimager. After the image has been created, I insert the new flashdrive (16gb) and I can see it in the dropdown menu (below read/write) but when I select it - I get a popup window saying 'Please select a valid device' - is there a reason why?
I tested this 16gb flashdrive and its all good and confirmed as 16gb.
There must be an issue with your media, do you use the same usb port? I can't count the number of times I've done this, there is some software I would recommend you use this to test your usb flash drives.
I have just purchased 3 of these I've dropped down to 16GB from 32GB simply because OMV doesn't use a lot of space and one is creating an unnecessary large image file
ok i am going to wipe everything off all of my backup flashdrives, test them using software and do a new backup of my working system drive.
it should work, I agree!
How did you do that?
your method per post 28
I think I may have the found the issue, possibly.
The ATA error that I get on boot probably is stemming from the internal HDD, which originally was the omv system drive - I believe this failed.
So I did a fresh install of OMV onto my USB flash drive and changed the boot sequence in BIOS so that it boots from my USB drive, which works / no issues.
After making a new backup onto another flash drive and inserting that to boot up, I think for some reason its accessing the internal HDD which has the error, even though my boot sequence is to boot from USB drive 1st, internal drives last.
When I disable the internal HDD from BIOS sequence, it won't boot anything as it says its looking for a bootable media even though the USB flash drive is plugged.
I have noticed on the BIOS Legacy Boot - the internal HDD (IC25......) is always located first per image below , even though from my boot sequence internal HDD is meant to boot last.
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add kernel command parameter
libata.dma=0
Thanks Soma - how would I execute this command?
So somewhere along the line there is an issue with your media
The only think I can think of is that my omv5 system drive is on a SD card / usb reader combo and I'm trying to copy to a standard usb flash drive.
There I've used usbimager and Win32DiskImager, for usbimager;
from the dropdown under write/read select the usb drive, E: will be fine, then click an image file will automatically be created, once complete remove the drive, insert your new drive again select E: from the dropdown, ensure that the image file is displayed in the top box, so it will be the full path, click write the image file will now be written to the new usb drive
I've tried this and also tried the approach by Soma on post #11 (using Win32) but on both occasions the backup drive did not boot.
Both approaches were on separate flash drives so I dont think it is hardware related.
Any other ideas?
You are seeing the different partitions on your USB stick. Take any one of it usbimager will recognize the drive.
usbimager doesn't recognise the drives (only windows explorer does) when I try typing one of the drive letters, usbimager just says to select a valid device (it doesn't recognise the omy system drive)
I thought you weren't able to get usbimager to work? I'm confused.
No I can get usbimager to work. I cant get the backup OMV flash drive to boot once I've written the image using usbimager. So I created a backup using the backup plugin (ddfull) and then write this image using usbimager. I also did the same process but instead of usbimager, I tried etcher.
I also tried both usbimager and etcher on different usb drives (thinking it was the usb drives).
But in all cases, OMV (backup version) will not boot.
This is even more confusing to me. You say it doesn't recognize the drive but then you say Windows gives it two drive letters? If it is getting drive letters, then Windows knows the drive is plugged in. Getting drive letters is not the same as knowing the drive exists. If you can see the drive in disk manager, then Windows knows it is plugged in and usbimager should be able to write an image to it.
When I insert the omv system drive into windows, it comes up with 2 drive letter (e.g. D:/ and F:/) - presumably one is the ext4 filesystem and not sure what the other (swap file??). In any case, I thought there was a way to use usbimager to clone the omv flash drive but I don't think there is
It doesn't need to. It is only cloning the disk and the blocks on it. Windows doesn't have to understand what is on those blocks.
I'm really sorry but I'm still not clear. Other than using ddfull backup through OMV UI and writing that image using usbimager - it didn't work.
If i physically take the OMV flash drive and insert in my windows machine and then try usbimager, windows wont recognise the drive, so not sure how I clone it this way. Its also shows up as 2 drive letters on windows so I can't type E: or F: drives in the source box
You are correct but I don't understand why people use fancy utilities to clone a drive. usbimager on windows, mac, or linux is all you need. I have no idea how Macrium works. It might just be cloning the filesystem instead of the whole disk but I am just guessing.
ok I haven't yet done cloning system drive to backup drive using usb imager, if that is what you suggest?
but I've done ddfull backup and then tried to write the image using usbimager (didn't work) and etcher (didn't work).
EDIT: usbimager (on windows) doesn't recognise the ext4 filesystem so no tquite sure how to physically clone the drive on a windows machine using usb imager
thanks soma. tried Macrium Reflect Free Edition to clone my OMV system drive.
first I tried to clone my 16gb system drive to another usb drive but couldn't because my system drive is 14.98gb whereas the backup flashdrive are 14.78gb (so it says insufficient memory) - maybe this is why backup using ddfull, writing the image to these flash drives did not work??
I then tried to clone onto a 32gb flash drive but when I tried to boot - it didn't boot to OMV (its headless so I need to connect a monitor to find what happened) but also thinking if going from 16gb to 32gb would cause any issues?
I tried Clonezilla (following the clonezilla guide: Headless Backup of the System Drive with Clonezilla) but for some reason the image didn't work as it copied everything into a directory but Win32/Etcher etc cant find an actual image file.
I've also downloaded Paragon Partition Manager to clone but it seems the option to 'copy disk', which I presume is cloning is not a feature of the free version.
