Blinking command line after FreeNAS boot

[rktoast]

Howdy folks. Got my hands on a decommissioned SuperServer 7045B-T that I wanted to use as a storage server, thought it would be fun to put FreeNAS on it. I've never installed FreeNAS before, but I have installed Windows, Ubuntu and OSX on plenty of other systems in the past, and work as an MSP for my day job. This one was rather tricky, as it seems the motherboard does not boot from a USB, so I had to burn a CD and jurry-rig a reader. The good news is the BIOS reads my CD and SSD (new Samsung 860 evo 250gb) just fine, will go through the installation process, everything. However once done installing, the system restarts automatically, which brings you back to the CD. After rebooting again and changing the boot order to favor the SSD, I'm left with a blinking command line and no input. I used UltraISO to burn my CD onto a CD-R on Windows 10. What am I doing wrong? Almost seems like it isn't installing properly.

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve this? If not, are you sure that hardware is supported?