Freenas 9.2 and 9.2.1.3 both crash on booting newly installed freenas on asrock c2550d4i with on ssd

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Stingray

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Hello, time for a real bsd n00bie..


have installed freenas 3 times, and everytime i try to boot the newly installed freenas on my 64gb os ssd drive, its the same, it gives a error 19 when mounting the root filesystem. something about ufs://blaha..freenas...

and then i drop into some shell, but hell i dont know wtf to start with as this is my first visit from linux to bsd..

well now its out for the easter, but will check in around monday to see if anyone got a clue where to start look..

hardware..
Asrock C2550D4I
Kingston ECC 8GB 1600mhz
ADATA SP900 (64gb SSD disk)
WD Red 4TB (for the zpool if i accually get into freenas..)

installation done over IPMI..
 

cyberjock

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Any reason you aren't using a USB stick like the manual recommends? You can't use the free space for anything else...a gain, per the manual. Seems like a waste of money to me...
 

Stingray

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because i dont have any internal usb slots, and i want atleast two, or three so i can use mirror or raidz on the os. because usbs are unstable, and with cats, no chance in hell i would have something blinking that is system critical outside the case.. like the os.. so thats why the ssd.. and in time that is supposed to go mirror or raidz too just for relability..

ps yes.. cats can be assholes!

so no usb thats not a option... and its only a 64gb ssd so its os only...
 

Stingray

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hmm so far i kinda think freenas with harddrive is not gonna work, as even though i say i dont want a usbstick you keep telling med to use a usb stick...

well then freenas is nothing for me..

thanks.
 

cyberjock

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Well, if you are so adamant that you don't think that the developer's recommendations are good enough for you to trust, you shouldn't be using any product at all. If you can't trust the developer, who the hell *are* you supposed to trust? They could just as easily be putting in backdoors, etc.

So either you trust them and do what they recommend because they know best, or you decide that you know best and you do whatever you want. But expect an "I told ya so" when you do something that causes you to lose your data...
 

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Are you aware that FreeNAS runs as an appliance and writes very little to the flash drive? I bought 2 Patriot flash drives (for FreeNAS), about 2.5 years ago. One for production, the other for backup. For all intents and purposes, I've never used the backup.

Buy a high quality flash drive and use one of the solutions joelmusicman provided.
 

cyberjock

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Are you aware that FreeNAS runs as an appliance and writes very little to the flash drive? I bought 2 Patriot flash drives (for FreeNAS), about 2.5 years ago. One for production, the other for backup. For all intents and purposes, I've never used the backup.

Buy a high quality flash drive and use one of the solutions joelmusicman provided.


Shhh.. don't tell him that. He won't trust you anyway because the developer's couldn't possibly have thought that up when the made the decision to recommend FreeNAS on a USB stick.
 

joelmusicman

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Shhh.. don't tell him that. He won't trust you anyway because the developer's count possibly have thought that up when the made the decision to recommend FreeNAS on a USB stick.


Or that a lot of datacenter level stuff runs exactly the same way...
 
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