Can't install 11.2u3 on Asrock H87WSA-DL

[Underwater Mike]

I'm running a new build with an Asrock Rack H87WSA-DL, i5-4590 (Haswell), 16G Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9), and an OCZ Vertex 2 120G SSD (repurposed from my FreeNAS 9.x setup). I used Win32DI to create a USB to install onto the SSD. All other drives removed during installation.

The USB is written okay (I've tried a couple different sticks, too), but whenever I try to boot from the USB to install, it tosses me straight into Grub Rescue. I've absolutely no idea how to proceed from there, as I'm Linux-ignorant. I'm not running secure boot or anything like that.

There's no problem that I can tell with the hardware, as I tried installing Windows just to check and that went fine. Open Media Vault also installs fine from the same USB sticks.

Any suggestions to resolve this? Thanks.

 

[Underwater Mike]

UPDATE: Looks like this is an issue specific to 11.2-U3. I tried 11.1-U7 and the USB booted right into the installation screen.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

 

[dlavigne]

Have you tried the steps in the Resolving Boot Issues section of https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-release/?

 

[Underwater Mike]

Have you tried the steps in the Resolving Boot Issues section of https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-2-release/?

Yes. None of the solutions there helped because (1) I wasn't able to even boot, and (2) a brand new out-of-the-shrink-wrap stick was among those I tested. Thanks, though!