Some background information I have been running 9.2.x from some time on this hardware with no issues. Have done many in place firmware updates/upgrade again with no problems.
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Hardware is:
I first tried to perform an in-place firmware upgrade but it failed. I suspect this was due to only having a 2GB boot flash drive. But I did not review any logs to confirm. Okay onto plan “B”. Here I was going to use the fresh install approach with 2 USB flash drives.GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P
Latest BIOS installed
On-board fire wire disabled
On-board audio disabled
8 GB of RAM 4x2GB
Latest BIOS installed
On-board fire wire disabled
On-board audio disabled
8 GB of RAM 4x2GB
- Backed up the current system configuration – no problems
- Burn the ISO image to the flash drive (USB A) using the program suggested in the docs – no issues
- Insert USB A into the my FreeNAS box and boot into the installer – no issues
- Insert USB B (8 GB Drive) into my FreeNAS box the system sees the drive and the installer loads the 9.3 OS and completes with no errors.
- Shut down box and remove USB A drive
- Power up the system and it hangs on the BIOS screen right after it shows the CPU type but before the memory count.
- Okay so I try all the combinations of 4GB, 8GB, AND 16GB brand and non-brand USB drives for both USA A and USB B. They all work fine as USB A but all hang the same when used as USB B. I also tried moving USB B to all the different USB ports on the box made no difference. And just for kicks I even tried using a USB hard drive the results were the same.
- I did search the group and tried to read as much as I could for similar problems. One suggestion was to wipe the USB B drive which I did but the results are the same.
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