FreeNas 11.3 Installer Hangs at inital boot

[2twisty]

I am trying to set up FreeNAS in a couple environments and I'm getting the exact same behavior in both.

ENV1: As a guest OS on UnRAID 6.8.3
ENV2: Bare Metal on an old i5

Both Machines are configured with 8 GB of RAM.

When I boot the ISO image (unraid) or use a USB Key (i5), the installer boots to the countdown screen and then starts to boot.

I see:

Booting
Start @ 0xffffffff80326000
EFI FrameBuffer information:
addr, size 0xd0000000, 0x7ff000
dimensions 640x480 (i5) 800x600 (unraid)
stride 640 (i5) 800 (unraid)
masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000


And it hangs here and never recovers. Have to power off the machines -- sending CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing.


On my Unraid VM, I was able to install 11.1, but attempting to upgrade from 11.1 to either 11.2 or 11.3 results in a nonbootable system. I have not yet tried it on the i5.


I have downloaded the ISO several times, and flashed it to different USB keys using Rufus, Win32DiskImager and Balena Etcher. All result in the same behavior.

I don't know what else to try. Please advise.

 

[2twisty]

These installations are for a test lab so that I can become familiar with FreeNAS before I have to deploy it on a SAN that my company is building. I'd rather learn the interfaces, etc before I am trying to build a prod unit.

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

Try checking the checksum (it is on the download page) just to make sure that the image is not corrupted. With the USB key, I found that a quality USB 2 (not 3) thumb drive works better.

 

[pschatz100]

Two questions:

1) Are you trying to run FreeNAS from the ISO image? The ISO is used to create a FreeNAS bootable device. The ISO is not a runnable FreeNAS image. Please list the exact steps you took after downloading FreeNAS.

2) What's your hardware? Something may be incompatible

 

[2twisty]

The hardware on the unraid machine is an Ryzen5 1600. Using the BSD template. I can easily install other BSD-based stuff like pfSense in a VM, so I can't believe that the KVM Virtual hardware is incompatible.

As for the older i5 workstation, I'm not totally sure of the specs on that. Due to the Human Malware (thanks for the term, Gamer's Nexus!) I may not have access to that hardware to get more information. So, since I'm having the same trouble with both physical hardware and KVM, I'd rather focus on getting KVM to work.

So, what can we do to troubleshoot the KVM install?

 

[2twisty]

Well, I managed to install 11.3 on VirtualBox on my laptop -- unfortunately, I don't have enough RAM to make FreeNAS happy. I can only give the VM 4GB, but that should be sufficient for my testing, I guess.

I still find it interesting that I couldn't get it to boot on that older i5. Is there a lower limit on what generation of i5 I can install 11.3?

 

[yurx149158]

I'm on the same problem boat. Lost 2h before refusing to boot/install off FreeNAS-11.3-U2.iso USB stick and tried FreeNAS-11.2-U7.iso EFI boot. Booted/installed no problem then upgraded to 11.3-u2 from WebGUI. I'm very old 2012 ASUS E35M1-I, booting off SanDisk Cruiser Fit 16G USB stick. BIOS upgrade tried, just wasted time. Repeat, try FreeNAS-11.2-U7.iso

 

[yurx149158]

Any progress over the issue?

 

[Gladdos]

Hi, did you ever solve your issue? I experienced the exact same issue after upgrading from 11.2 to 11.3. in the last days.

Crossing my fingers for a solution!

Any progress over the issue?