Freenas wont boot

[jan huisma]

Hello,

I just installed freenas on an USB drive 16GB.. When i boot ut the system the system will go straight to the bios.

pc specs
Asus am1m-a
amd athlon 5350
8GB ecc ram
2x2 TB HDD

 

[nojohnny101]

What steps did you follow to install freenas?

What do you mean when it just goes to bios? Does you system detect the USB drive? Is it listed in the boot menu?

 

[melloa]

Plus FreeNAS version been installed ...

 

[jan huisma]

What steps did you follow to install freenas?

What do you mean when it just goes to bios? Does you system detect the USB drive? Is it listed in the boot menu?

The system does detect the usb drive, I followed the normal steps install/upgrade then selected the drive. When i power up the system select the usb drive in bootloader it just goes to the bios after 10 seconds. It will even do so if i dont select the drive in bootloader

 

[jan huisma]

Plus FreeNAS version been installed ...

9.10.1

 

[SweetAndLow]

sounds like your motherboard doesn't support booting from USB. Try booting from a ssd/hdd or try booting a live linux distro from usb.

 

[jan huisma]

sounds like your motherboard doesn't support booting from USB. Try booting from a ssd/hdd or try booting a live linux distro from usb.

Installed linux mint on it with usb, windows 10 and windows server 2012r2 to

 

[jan huisma]

sounds like your motherboard doesn't support booting from USB. Try booting from a ssd/hdd or try booting a live linux distro from usb.

And live boot works to

 

[SweetAndLow]

Ok then if you think all that other stuff works then freenas isn't supported on your hardware. Your motherboard isn't a good choice anyways, realtek nic :|.

maybe this has your answer

https://gist.github.com/michaellindman/8d6c2bf9a848c85f1238

 

[danb35]

Just for the sake of testing, can you try installing it to either an SSD or a hard drive, and see if it boots from there? A small SSD is actually a great choice of a boot device, but the idea is to see if your system can boot it at all.

 

[jan huisma]

Ok then if you think all that other stuff works then freenas isn't supported on your hardware. Your motherboard isn't a good choice anyways, realtek nic :|.

maybe this has your answer

https://gist.github.com/michaellindman/8d6c2bf9a848c85f1238

It is an good choice for AM1 because of ECC, it doesnt say it suports it but it does. I will try your
solution as soon as i come home

 

[melloa]

Installed linux mint on it with usb, windows 10 and windows server 2012r2 to

I had problems with motherboard not even installing FreeBSD appliances (i.e. FreeNAS, pfSense) and working for other OSs due to shared memory. Booting from USB was always possible. Try for sake of testing the suggestion @danb35 mention or just use one of your HDs on your SATA.

 

[Mirfster]

It is an good choice for AM1 because of ECC, it doesnt say it suports it but it does.

Are you sure about this? While the CPU shows that it supports ECC RAM, the Motherboard shows it doesn't. Just because the RAM may be ECC, both the CPU and Motherboard also have to support it.

 

[jan huisma]

Are you sure about this? While the CPU shows that it supports ECC RAM, the Motherboard shows it doesn't. Just because the RAM may be ECC, both the CPU and Motherboard also have to support it.

Yes found an forum post about that

 

[jan huisma]

I had problems with motherboard not even installing FreeBSD appliances (i.e. FreeNAS, pfSense) and working for other OSs due to shared memory. Booting from USB was always possible. Try for sake of testing the suggestion @danb35 mention or just use one of your HDs on your SATA.

still the same. wont boot, goes straight to bios

 

[jan huisma]

Just for the sake of testing, can you try installing it to either an SSD or a hard drive, and see if it boots from there? A small SSD is actually a great choice of a boot device, but the idea is to see if your system can boot it at all.

didnt work

 

[melloa]

still the same. wont boot, goes straight to bios

Sorry to hear. I'd say your hardware is probably incompatible and the effort to troubleshoot it wouldn't pay off.

You've reported above that you've installed mint, 10, and 2012 from USB, so your MB is capable of booting from it, so it must be some FreeBSD incompatibility. As mentioned above, I did have problems installing on an old HP and after playing a lot, just donated it ... to my mother-in-law to run windows.

 

[gpsguy]

You might want to give 9.3.1 a try.


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[jan huisma]

Sorry to hear. I'd say your hardware is probably incompatible and the effort to troubleshoot it wouldn't pay off.

You've reported above that you've installed mint, 10, and 2012 from USB, so your MB is capable of booting from it, so it must be some FreeBSD incompatibility. As mentioned above, I did have problems installing on an old HP and after playing a lot, just donated it ... to my mother-in-law to run windows.

Well my hardware is compatible but my stupid motherboard refuses to boot to grub for some reason, I will try putting grub2 on another flashdrive and see if that's anyluck

 

[jan huisma]

You might want to give 9.3.1 a try.


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what's the diference between 9.3 and 9.10? (sorry for my english)