Clean Install from USB = Grub Command line

[adderdawn]

Hello -

I have a newly built machine and am attempting to load FreeNAS Scale from a USB stick. Specifications:

• Motherboard make and model: Supermicro X11SDV-8C+-TLN2F Motherboard Mini-ITX
• CPU make and model: Xeon D-2141
• RAM quantity: 128GB (32GBx4 DDR4 2133 MHZ PC4-17000 ECC RDIMM 2Rx4 1.2V Registered)
• Hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration, including boot drives:
  • Samsung FIT USB 3.1 128 GB
    • Boot; 2 partitions;
      • Partition 1: TrueNAS Scale (32 GB)
      • Partition 2: Debian 11 (32 GB)
    • Balance of space is unpartitioned
  • (3x) Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA unformatted
  • (2x) Seagate 16TB Ironwolf Pro 7200 SATAIII 3.5" NAS HDD (CMR)
• Hard disk controllers: None
• Network cards: None

Using a separate Deb11 machine I downloaded the TrueNAS ISO and verified the SHA256. I used DD to copy the ISO to a 32GB partition on the USB drive (no errors). When I insert the USB into the new machine, F11 to the boot menu, select the appropriate from the boot menu it boots to the grub command line (see attached image).

If I choose the Deb11 partition of the USB drive, it boots to the install page as expected.

What did I do wrong / how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Josh

 

[danb35]

What did I do wrong

My guess would be writing the .iso to a partition, rather than to the bare drive itself. If you want to keep multiple bootable .isos on a single stick, Ventoy is a good way to do it.

 

[adderdawn]

That was exactly my problem. After dd the ISO to /dev/sda it worked just fine.

Thank you!