11.1-U5 -> 11.2-BETA2 = constantly rebooting and no text/menus at all.

[OleWissing]

Upgraded from 11.1-U5 to 11.2-BETA2, but when rebooting the machine, it just keeps rebooting, without anything boot-related stuff on the screen.

I have a single encrypted ZFS volume on 5 x 8Tb drives with 3 x 250Gb SSD in stribe as cache.
The bootdrive is a 250Gb SSD hardware-RAID1 (LSI SAS w/battery)

I have checked the hw setup and found no problems, so the problem must be on the boot-drive, and propably the transition from GRUB to the new FreeNAS boothandler.

My own suggestion: download the 11.2-BETA2 image, and do an upgrade (preferable an in-place, if possible)

Does that sounds reasonable????

 

[Ericloewe]

Install to new media. If you don't have a copy of the config database, you can retrieve it later from the old boot pool.

 

[Ericloewe]

Also, make damned sure that you have all key backups in order before doing anything remotely destructive to the old boot pool.

 

[Alecmascot]

My own suggestion: download the 11.2-BETA2 image, and do an upgrade (preferable an in-place, if possible)

Does that sounds reasonable????

Do you want to loose all your data ?
With an encrypted pool you want to run BETA software ????

Revert to 11.1-U5 and wait till all the bugs are out of 11.2..........

 

[DrKK]

Do you want to loose all your data ?
With an encrypted pool you want to run BETA software ????

I had nearly the precisely same thoughts, with the identical words, running through my head as I read it.