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Error: Incompatible License
Hello everyone. I am new to Turnkey Linux and still trying to figure it all out. I am currently using Fileserver and loving how simple and effective it is over some of the others (FreeNAS, OpenFiler etc). Here is where i need your help. I had to reboot the server and the following message appeared;
error: Incompatible License, Entering rescue mode... Grub Rescue>
Could someone please advise as what this error is about and how to repair it as my fileserver which I am using for PLEX is still down. Still being new, step to step process to repair would be greatly appreciated. Thanx..
That is a very weird issue to have and I've never come across it myself. I just had a quick google and it seems the error is caused by a module that grub (the bootloader) is trying to load, does not have a compatible license.
All the default TurnKey Linux modules should be fine so I wouldn't expect any issues there. Have you installed anything yourself which may explain this weirdness?
Having said that, the most common cause appears to be trying to load grub1 (v1.x<98) modules with grub2 (v1.98+). Is there a possibility that you had some older Linux OS installed at some point and grub is trying to load old modules from that?
Could you please rpvide a bit more info on how/where you are running the fileserver (e.g. bare metal install, VM on VirtualBox, something else...) and also what version of TurnKey it was (the current version is v14.1).