@aaron What version of Rockstor do you see this message appear? In a recently update there have been some changes to also suggest one press enter so that the message might be updated with the actual IP. It turned out that on some hardware the console is ready before the IP has been setup so it should now indicate this: ie the message explains that the ip is not yet ready and pressing enter refreshes the info available. Takes an additional 2-4 seconds on a couple of machines I have here.
This update should now have been incorporated in both the testing and the stable channel. Try applying what update are available in the channel of you choice and the message should now be more helpful.
Fix was applied in version 3.8-8.11 so that version and newer should be more helpful in this regard.
Also note that there is now a shiny new iso v3.8-9 with the fix already in:- downloadable from the usual places.
Hope that helps.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to leave the sdq3 to others, although if this is older hardware then there may well be a hdd delay option in the bios that give the HDD’s a little more time to get their power on checks done prior to being written off as not there / ready. Worth a look.