freenas and some motherboard bios remember the exact usb port to boot from sometimes
if your USB stick disappears in the future, try a program like easeus partition master
you may have to delete all partitions and wipe disks
sometimes doing upgrades, the new version just keeps making new partition and old data gets jumbled up
that is why I prefer not to do upgrades anymore, always clean install
are you sure sef?
because I just reinstalled FreeNAS 9.3 and I clearly saw it say it could not find da0 and it rewrote the location of the bootloader
so in fact, it did remember exactly where the USB was prior
I appreciate his hardworkI'm pretty sure he's right, since he wrote the code that makes it all work. ;)
are you sure sef?
because I just reinstalled FreeNAS 9.3 and I clearly saw it say it could not find da0 and it rewrote the location of the bootloader
so in fact, it did remember exactly where the USB was prior
That is not particularly relevant.
If someone cannot see their USB stick you think that is not relevant?
of course, it is relevant.
freenas has botched up plenty of installs and if you want to argue otherwise you are being ignorant.
This has been happening to me everytime I run the updates, I had put it down to dodgy usb stick rather than Freenas burning it into submission.
For interests sake what happens on my Hp N54L ia that on the reboot it pauses on the USB tests and on is unable to initialise the usb controller , or at least the onboard socket and so boots off the NAS disks.
Pulling out the stick allows the USB to initialise but again boots of the NAS disk ( or at least loads the block with the message) putting the stick back in and rebooting allows Freenas to reboot, powering cycling the Microserver when it is stuck at the 'Initialising USB...' prompt allows the server to boot Freenas with the correct version selected.
As I said I am assuming its my stick on the way out, unless Freenas 'wrote to the stick in special way' when I did the inital upgrade from 9.2.1x to 9.3x that is :)
I have had three thumb drives go bad in the last two years, and it has always happened when I update software (other than for updates, I don't reboot my system very often.) Let's face it, thumb drives are just not very reliable.Fresh install of 9.3 STABLE (ISO burned to DVD) onto a brand new 64GB PNY USB 3.0 (2.o backwards compatible, Thank You Sef!) Thumb drive. Experiencing no reboot issues whatsoever now.
4GB Verbatim and 8GB PNY thumb drives with 9.3 Beta, I had the reboot issue where my setup just stopped seeing the drives altogether until I moved them to a different USB port.
I have had my server out of it's cubby hole with the side off (internal USB port on bottom of motherboard) so I can access the thumb drive easier in case issue happened again .. I think it's safe to put the cover back on and slide it back into it's hole again now ... :D
Again, Thank you Sef for the drive and FreeNAS!
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