Dell 1950 FreeNas 9.2.1.2 hanging

[doodguy]

Hello Everyone,

I had FreeNas up and running on a Dell 1950 with 2 physical dual core CPU's and 16GB ram.

I then added a solid state hard drive that I had laying around, and was not seeing it through the web GUI. I then rebooted the NAS box, and it got to a point where it says "Battery charge complete" but the console never came up.

I let it sit for a half hour, but the status didn't change. Next, I removed the drive and rebooted the box and am now getting the same result.

Can anyone help me figure out why the box is hanging at this point and not giving me the console please?

Thank you for your time.

 

[doodguy]

#bump up top.

Is there something simple I can do like manually start the CLI?

 

[krikboh]

Is your FreeNAS installation on a USB key as recommended? Have you confirmed the BIOS is still set to boot from the USB key?

 

[doodguy]

yes, it is installed on usb stick, and yes it boots to usb stick. I can see it go through a bunch of commands. Here's last bit of commands sitting on my screen right now after a fresh reboot:

starting ums0 moused.
bce1: bce1: link state changed to up
Gigabit link up!
add net default: gateway 192.168.2.1
add net fe80::: gateway ::1
add net ff02::: gateway ::1
generating host.conf.
Warning: unrecognized source [wins]
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/event2 /usr/local/lib/nss
32-bit compatibility ldconfig path:
Starting syslogd.
Creating and/or trimming log files.
starting syslogd.
syslogd: syslogd already running, pid: 2048
/etc/rc: warning: failed to start syslogd
starting wtchdogd.
debug.ddb.textdump.pending: 0 -> 1
debug.debugger_on_panic: 1 -> 1
no core dumps found.

 

[krikboh]

I assume from the battery message that your server is utilizing a PERC RAID card. Maybe a search of the forums might uncover a solution. As Cyberjock likes to say ZFS+RAID=Fail. I don't believe the PERC cards can be run in IT mode or JBOD.


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[doodguy]

yes, my server is running a PERC raid card; but each drive is its own virtual disk (no arrays).

Is there an easy way for me to grab the config off the USB? I don't mind reinstalling if I can somehow save my config.

 

[krikboh]

If you can access the USB drive on another system you can access the config file at:

/data/freenas-v1.db

 

[cyberjock]

yes, my server is running a PERC raid card; but each drive is its own virtual disk (no arrays).

That changes nothing.. you are still using RAID with ZFS, and are still in the "RAID+ZFS=fail" mode.

 

[doodguy]

well ain't that the damndest thing!

I booted freenas into the shell, didn't do anything, typed exit rebooted computer and now its working again. (SWEET)

Now; what's the proper way to add a solid state drive to my non-raided JBOD configuration? I pop the solid state disk in shut down/reboot computer and FreeNas isn't even showing it available. I see it on my PERC card and in BIOS; think there's jsut some sort of issue with my Gen1 Dell 1950 reading it?