I'm installing Roon on an Intel NUC (8i7BEH) and everything was going smoothly until Roon was installed and I rebooted my NUC. Instead of seeing the screen welcoming me to Roon, I get a text only screen starting with "BusyBox" that appears to be telling me I need to mount a file system ("Filesystem autodetect requires /proc."), but I'm not able to type anything. I thought it might be a bad SSD, but I've replaced that and get the same error. Please let me know what might be causing this and what I can do to resolve this issue. Thank you.
Describe your network setup
I have the latest Xfinity modem and am running an Eero mesh wireless router system on top of that to connect all of my devices around the house to the Internet and each other.
Welcome to the forum! Just t oconfirm, you are trying to install ROCK on this NUC, is that correct? Did you have another operating system installed on the NUC in the past? Do you have Legacy boot turned on in your BIOS? Are you following the ROCK install guide as linked below?
Yes, I’m installing ROCK on this NUC. I have not had another operating system on this NUC in the past. I had ROCK installed on this NUC about 6 years ago. It ran for about 2.5 years then the fan died. In replacing the fan, one of the connection points to the circuit board popped off. After much back and forth with Intel, they sent me a replacement motherboard. I put it all back together just as it was before and got this odd screen/message when installing ROCK. At first, I did have legacy boot turned on, but following the directions I turned it off after updating the BIOS and made sure the USB drive was the first boot device for UEFI boot mode. I’ve been following the install guide step by step, even watching the demo videos right along with what I’m doing. Right when ROCK successfully installs and I hit Enter to reboot it, the video in the instructions shows the success screen, while I get this odd message about needing a file system.
Thank you for the details and for confirming your setup.
To help narrow down the issue, could you please let us know how many drives are currently installed in your NUC?
As a next step, we recommend removing all drives from the NUC except for the one intended for the Roon ROCK installation. Then, completely clear any existing partitions on that drive. You can do this in one of two ways:
Using a bootable USB drive with any partitioning tool, you can boot the NUC and delete all existing partitions on the drive, leaving the M.2 SSD unpartitioned.
Connecting the drive to another system and using disk management tools there to wipe the partition table completely, leaving it unallocated.
Once the SSD is unpartitioned, proceed with the ROCK installation as usual. This ensures ROCK can correctly format the drive and initialize the filesystem.
