I am doing a build with 6 drives and also have a SATA SSD I want to use as FreeNAS boot drive. My E3C226D2I has 6 SATA ports and I have an LSI 9217-8i (in IR mode) which I flashed with the latest firmware and BIOS. I somehow trust the motherboard SATA ports more than the LSI card (unjustified...

Hi everyone I just bought a Dell Poweredge 710 server and I cannot get FreeNAS to boot from a USB stick to save my life. I have tried everything, changing the boot order, making the USB emulate a hard drive, selecting it and booting directly. Nothing works! I can easily boot windows server 2012...

Hello, I'm attempting to boot 64bit FreeNAS install on a 2006 MacPro with a 32bit EFI. Anyone have any experience with this? I have tried installing on another machine and then booting and that fails, etc. Would it be possible to install 32bit and then 64bit on separate drives and move the...

I am setting up a new system with a Supermicro X11SSH-F motherboard, 8 sata disks for storage, and two 32gb USB 3.0 flash drives for booting. I installed from the latest 9.10-STABLE iso (mounted as a virtual cd via IPMI), selecting the 2 USB drives (da0 and da1) for installation. That seemed to...

This is kind of a half-assed bug report. Problem Upon running the update system on a completely completely fresh installation of FreeNAS from the 9.10.2 ISO that I just downloaded, the system was rendered unbootable. I saw various healthy-looking messages fly by in the Console as it appeared to...