Hi, I cannot seem to get FreeNAS booting from my 4 GB USB stick.
NAS is a HP Microserver N54L with 8 GB RAM and two 250 GB hdds for testing, configured as JBOD.
Boot order in BIOS is 1. USB and 2. Network (no boot partition on hdds yet).
USB formatting type is set to HDD (tested "auto", too).
BTW: booting from USB is fine, as I did a firmware upgrade via USB and it was working fine.
Burnt USB on a ubuntu machine: xzcat FreeNAS-9.2.0-RELEASE-x64.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64k
when done, I have four partition on the stick:
partition 1: 988 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), bootable, (no file system)
partition 2: 988 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), (no file system)
partition 3: 1.5 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), (ufs)
partition 4: 21 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), (ufs)
plus about 2 gb of free space.
When booting the box, I get a boot menu too fast to react to, offering
F1: FreeBSD
F2: FreeBSD
F5: Drive 1
F6: PXE
It goes straight into F1 (bootable first partition on stick, I guess) with an output similar to:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
int=<hex-code> err=<hex-code> <etc. etc. for various lines>
BTX halted
And that's it, cursor blinking nicely laughing at my face.
Due to the apparent lack of a file system and/or data on the first partition, I wouldn't expect the device to boot anything, but I would very much like to know what's happening with these partitions.
Or am I missing something else entirely?
NAS is a HP Microserver N54L with 8 GB RAM and two 250 GB hdds for testing, configured as JBOD.
Boot order in BIOS is 1. USB and 2. Network (no boot partition on hdds yet).
USB formatting type is set to HDD (tested "auto", too).
BTW: booting from USB is fine, as I did a firmware upgrade via USB and it was working fine.
Burnt USB on a ubuntu machine: xzcat FreeNAS-9.2.0-RELEASE-x64.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64k
when done, I have four partition on the stick:
partition 1: 988 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), bootable, (no file system)
partition 2: 988 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), (no file system)
partition 3: 1.5 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), (ufs)
partition 4: 21 mb, type FreeBSD (0xa5), (ufs)
plus about 2 gb of free space.
When booting the box, I get a boot menu too fast to react to, offering
F1: FreeBSD
F2: FreeBSD
F5: Drive 1
F6: PXE
It goes straight into F1 (bootable first partition on stick, I guess) with an output similar to:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
int=<hex-code> err=<hex-code> <etc. etc. for various lines>
BTX halted
And that's it, cursor blinking nicely laughing at my face.
Due to the apparent lack of a file system and/or data on the first partition, I wouldn't expect the device to boot anything, but I would very much like to know what's happening with these partitions.
Or am I missing something else entirely?