Roon ROCK worked flawlessly on this NUC in 2017, but I had to repurpose the NUC for Windows usage.
Now I want to have Roon ROCK back, but it won’t install on this same hardware.
I followed step by step the ROCK installation guide.
After above error message and a restart, Roon OS seems to work, web interface accessible, OS lets itself re-install. ffmpeg uploaded, but server will not start, not even after several re-boots.
What I tried:
BIOS defaulted and setup again.
SSD partitions deleted, formatted and tested, with bootable AOMEI tool
Tried two different pendrives for ROCK install image.
Several ‘etching’ of each pendrives with balena and rufus.
I wish I could point you at the md5sums to verify it was downloaded correctly.
I am unable to.
So I can only point out it stating a CRC error.
Then “short read”
Both point to an incomplete image burn.
But I am wrong frequently as I learn too.
Hopefully someone will correct us.
I’ve had this issue when using certain image burners, and not with others. I can’t recall which one worked for Roon - I just have several lying around and retry with a different one when I hit a snag like this.
Thanks for the replies.
I have evaluated creating the usb media with following 8 combinations:
Balena / Rufus
ROCK image zipped / unzipped
W10 / W7 PC
all of that variations end up with the same CRC errormessage above.
I re-downloaded the ROCK image several times, shows always the same size, same errormessage during installation.
Can I find an MD5 checksum for the image to check if my download is not corrupted?
The checksum I’ll leave to someone smarter than me. I can confirm I successfully used Etcher in the past, per a suggestion higher up. (Albeit on a previous version, as I’ve been updating happily through automatic updates for some time).
Short update: burnt the image with Win32 Diskimager - same error during RoonServer install (tar crc / short read).
The RoonOS on the other hand is always deployed and can be started. The Web UI is functional. I can even re-install the whole system from the UI. Only the Roon Server will not start. I cannot really understand this: when the OS is functional and is capable of re-installing the whole ROCK (my understaning), why is the RoonServer not repaired along the way?