Gilt Brick
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Hi everyone. I'm trying to install FreeNAS with the motherboard in the title. I have 2 usb sticks, a larger one for the boot drive and a smaller one for the installation. The larger stick shows up in the motherboard as both a UEFI and legacy boot option. The smaller drive only shows up as a UEFI option. Normally this wouldn't be much of a problem but for some reason, I can't boot from any UEFI devices using this motherboard. The thing is it's a Sandy Bridge board so I'm pretty sure it supports UEFI.
Possible solutions are either to somehow make the USB show up as a legacy device, or to enable UEFI booting on the motherboard (I looked at all the settings and I dont see a UEFI option). The thing is the bios looks like a legacy bios with the plain text and graphics, but I expect that from a supermicro boad, I'm pretty sure it supports UEFI since it mentions legacy boot and there is an option to show UEFI boot devices. I can boot into UEFI shell but not a UEFI device.
Possible solutions are either to somehow make the USB show up as a legacy device, or to enable UEFI booting on the motherboard (I looked at all the settings and I dont see a UEFI option). The thing is the bios looks like a legacy bios with the plain text and graphics, but I expect that from a supermicro boad, I'm pretty sure it supports UEFI since it mentions legacy boot and there is an option to show UEFI boot devices. I can boot into UEFI shell but not a UEFI device.