EFI and non-EFI boot

[svenny]

Hi all, I'm trying to install FreeNAS-11.1-U6 on an old Packard Bell imedia S2100 (processor AMD E-1 4 GB RAM 1 TB SATA disk). I know this is not an hardware good for FreeNAS (I will chnage it for a production system). I would like to try out FreeNAS before to put it in production. I've copied FreeNAS-11.1-U6.iso on a USB stick and tried to boot from it. When I see the list of the bootable devices I see (among the others):

EFI: KingstonDataTraveler 2.01.00

Booting this device does not work. The only error I see is:

module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff80fc84c0, 0) error 19

as documented by this image:

Then I've tried to boot from FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img (I think FreeNAS and FreeBSD are runnong from the same or similar kernel) and in this case the list of bootable devices (among the others) is as follows:

KingstonDataTraveler 2.01.00
EFI: KingstonDataTraveler 2.01.00

If I boot the first devices I'm able to install FreeBSD, while booting the second devices it returns the same error as above (no installation is possible),

So my question is: when installing FreeNAS why the non-EFI device does not show up?

Many thanks in advances.

Regards.

 

[svenny]

I've tried with FreeNAS-11.2-RC1.iso. Now the above error:

module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff80fc84c0, 0) error 19

has gone, but the system does not boot anyway.

This is the image of boot now:

Regards.

 

[dlavigne]

Did you find a better system to test your FreeNAS installation?

 

[svenny]

Unfortunately not.