Trouble Installing MinimServer on Melco N1ZH

[Peter@57m]

I have an N1ZH on which I installed MinimServer without any problems.

[GreenMtnGringo]

Good to know, Peter, thanks, that gives me some hope. What firmware version was yours on when you installed MinimServer? Mine is on the current v3.11.

[simoncn]

(27-12-2016 00:09)GreenMtnGringo Wrote:  Completing setup of device disk1....
Ejecting device disk1....
Volume failed to eject
logout

[Process completed]

The problem is caused by the "failed to eject" message. As a workaround for this problem, you can try usng the Finder eject button for the USB flash drive after the setup process has been completed. Removing a flash drive without ejecting it is likely to cause data corruption and this is almost certainly what is causing the "short read" error from the Melco.

I don't know what is causing the "failed to eject" message. Let's start with completing the installation and then come back to this message and try to solve it so that other users don't get the same problem.

[GreenMtnGringo]

(27-12-2016 19:31)simoncn Wrote:  

(27-12-2016 00:09)GreenMtnGringo Wrote:  Completing setup of device disk1....
Ejecting device disk1....
Volume failed to eject
logout

[Process completed]

The problem is caused by the "failed to eject" message. As a workaround for this problem, you can try usng the Finder eject button for the USB flash drive after the setup process has been completed. Removing a flash drive without ejecting it is likely to cause data corruption and this is almost certainly what is causing the "short read" error from the Melco.

I don't know what is causing the "failed to eject" message. Let's start with completing the installation and then come back to this message and try to solve it so that other users don't get the same problem.

Hi Simon and thanks for the post. I ejected the USB flash drive manually/safely each time.

[Peter@57m]

(27-12-2016 14:52)GreenMtnGringo Wrote:  Good to know, Peter, thanks, that gives me some hope. What firmware version was yours on when you installed MinimServer? Mine is on the current v3.11.

Yup - 3.11 here too

[GreenMtnGringo]

Hi Simon. I reformatted my USB flash drive from exFAT to FAT16. Despite getting what I suspect is the desired EJECT message (see below) I ended up with the same SHARE folder log file that I posted above.

At this point, I think I should find and try a different USB flash drive.

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Last login: Tue Dec 27 19:59:32 on console
XXXXXXXX-MacBook-Pro:~ XXXXXX$ /Volumes/MinimServer-0.8.4.4-melco/create-installer ; exit;

This utility writes the MinimServer installer image for the Melco N1 to
a USB flash drive. For this, you need to have a USB flash drive of 128 MB
or larger attached to this machine.

Check for available USB drives (y/n)?
y

The following USB drives are available:

Device Identifier: disk1
Device / Media Name: General USB Flash Disk Media
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 GB disk1
1: DOS_FAT_16 UNTITLED 1.0 GB disk1s1

Enter device identifier of Melco installer flash drive or null line to exit:
disk1

You have selected the following device:

Device Identifier: disk1
Device / Media Name: General USB Flash Disk Media
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 GB disk1
1: DOS_FAT_16 UNTITLED 1.0 GB disk1s1

All data on this device will be erased. Are you sure (y/n)?
y

Unmounting device disk1....
Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful
Writing installer image to device disk1 (this can take a while)....
Password:
XXXXXXXXXXX

122+1 records in
122+1 records out
128000000 bytes transferred in 45.251649 secs (2828626 bytes/sec)
The image was written sucessfully

Completing setup of device disk1....
Ejecting device disk1....
Disk disk1 ejected

The installer flash drive setup has completed successfully

You can now close this window and remove the flash drive.

logout

[Process completed]

[simoncn]

I agree that you should try a different flash drive. You could also try using Windows instead of macOS to create the flash drive image.

[GreenMtnGringo]

Update: Success!! I found a 4.0 GB USB flash drive, loaded it up via my MBP and it worked in my Melco. Not sure what was different this time, as the 4.0 GB flash drive's folder contents appeared to be identical to the the 1.0 GB flash drive that I could not get to work. Thanks to Simon and all who checked in and helped out. MinimServer donation forthcoming. Happy New Year!

[simoncn]

I'm glad this worked. Flash drives don't last for ever and it sounds like the original drive has some bad cells that happened to coincide with the location of one of the files needed by MinimServer. If this happened to me, I would discard the flash drive. Happy New Year!