SOLVED BTX halted Asrock E3C224-D14S

[ZodiacUHD]

Hello everyone,
I looked all over the forum but no solution seems to work in my case. I updated Freenas from 11.1 u6 to 11.2u4 this morning. It installed and rebooted just fine. Then i went to reboot and i only see the following message:

Any idea?


My motherboard is a Asrock E3C224D4I-14S. Under Advanced>SATA Mode Selection is set to AHCI.

Thank you very much!

 

[Spearfoot]

Do you have any USB devices plugged in to the system? If you do, try removing them.

 

[ZodiacUHD]

The only USB is the OS one.

 

[Ericloewe]

Well, the most likely scenario is that your boot device is crapping out and the new bootloader got messed up during the update. Replace it, reinstall and restore your config.

 

[ZodiacUHD]

I wish that was the case: This is an issue i had since the BETAs. I tried installing the Os on an SSD and 3 different USBs. I tried using USB 2.0 and 3.0. I'm positive it has to do with some kind of setting in the BIOS, i just can't understand what it is. Again, 11.1 works flawlessly, 11.2 reboots after the update and runs just fine but, if i reboot again i get the error.

The way i'm working around it is to boot in a 11.1 enviroment, select the new one from the UI and reboot. Then i have to make sure to activate the old one again in case i need to reboot.

 

[ZodiacUHD]

Bump

 

[ZodiacUHD]

Fixed it.
I had to disable every single other device from being in the boot list exept the OS USB (the order was correctly set for my USB to boot first). It wasn't a problem with previous versions, but apparently 11.2 in myt specific case, does not like it.

 

[Ericloewe]

That solved it? That's really weird, plenty of boards have trouble actually following boot priorities, but it should be absolutely irrelevant once the bootloader takes over.

 

[ZodiacUHD]

That was quite surprising to me as well. I actually tried it out of desperation but, i'm glad it works fine now.