SOLVED First boot fails, post install

[sumbody287]

Hello everybody,
I am trying to get a FreeNAS running in my lab at work as a POC.
Install didn't seem to have issues from what I could see but when I reboot it ends up stuck here

I've googled that phrase and seen a few things but I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong.
The closest was a really old post for somebody to try and go back to 9.3 (hoping that would NOT still be the case though since it was such an old post)

Details:

• FreeNAS-11.2-U7 installed via usb/rufus-style on...
• Intel Wolf Pass Chassis R2312WFTZSR https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/192598/intel-server-system-r2312wftzsr.html
• 2x Cascade Lake 6230 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...gold-6230-processor-27-5m-cache-2-10-ghz.html
• 16x 32GB DDR4 2933MHz
• Raid Setup (raid card is in jbod mode)
  • RMS3CC040 raid card https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...ed-raid-module-rms3cc040.html#@specifications
  • RES3FV288 raid expander https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/81277/intel-storage-expander-res3fv288.html
  • 12x SATA Micron 5200 MAX 1.92TB
• 3x Micron 9300 MAX 3.2TB nvme (connected through pcie, not through the raid card)

Thanks in advance.
Hopefully, I'm just missing something simple!
-sumbody

 

[sumbody287]

This is in legacy bios mode

 

[Alecmascot]

What is the boot device ?

 

[sumbody287]

One of the SATA Micron 5200 MAX 1.92TB drives is the boot drive

 

[sumbody287]

the legacy bios boots to the raid card, which is in jbod mode and lists that drive as the boot drive

 

[sumbody287]

Update:
I was able to work around this by ejecting all drives on the raid controller(my OS pool was not through the raid card) for first boot and adding them once the system was up and running. Further power-cycles after this point did not repro this issue anymore.
Figured I'd just update the thread in case anybody else only had hardware raid cards to work with.

 

[sretalla]

Anybody finding this article shouldn't view it as an endorsement for using RAID cards with FreeNAS/ZFS.

Although they may appear to work, you are risking your data for a number of reasons (mostly related to RAID cards implementing caching that isn't bypassed even in JBOD or passthrough mode and that SMART data is often not correctly handed back to the OS if it is even able to be read at all).

Don't risk your data with a RAID card, use a supported (and well tested) HBA card running in IT mode.