SOLVED Corral 10.0.x Booting in EFI blind mode

[entity279]

Hi, I've been having this issue on a new install of Corral.

If I install in 'BIOS' mode on an SSD, Corral boots up fine (althoght unpleasantly it seems that one has to turn on networking, but eventually it works)

However, I've got 6 SATA ports and 6 drives, so I am forced to install on an usb stick. I can't get it to boot on BIOS mode, and on EFI I'm greeted with this EFI blind mode error just after i select the proper boot entry in grub.

Please help!

Edit : i did tried of course to google for solutions but unhelpfully it seems most discussions point to 404's @ https://bugs.pcbsd.org/issues .
I cant tell even where to post a bug report ! :(

 

[dlavigne]

Are you aware of https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/important-announcement-regarding-freenas-corral.53502/?

 

[entity279]

Are you aware of https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/important-announcement-regarding-freenas-corral.53502/?

Nope, not at all. I am a victim of the powerful PR in the initial Corral announcement, than. Thanks for making me aware

So yeah, I'd like to install something with a higher probability of being stable while also being new. Is it wise to try the 11.0 -RC then?

Note that I've had problems with my prior 9.x install; I could never get it too boot without a monitor attached. Hence my desire to move as far away from that as well

 

[dlavigne]

If this is a fresh install, I'd recommend trying out 11.0-RC first as it will have the latest drivers and OS, and making sure that is stable for your needs before adding your important data to the drives.

 

[entity279]

It's working well so far on 11.0-RC meaning no issues with EFI installation and i finally got the server to boot without a monitor.

I'm struggling a bit with low file copy performance now, but I'm betting it's the windows client fault (starts-up with ~80 % of the 1Gbps speed and after a few minutes it stabilisies @ 9-12 MB/s)