Jonathan Wilson
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- Jul 18, 2015
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I've just started using FreeNAS after having driver problems with windows. Everything is smooth right up until I goto boot from the new install.
I downloaded the ISO as well as Win32Diskimager and created the boot disk on a 16 GB Sandisk flash drive. I do not want to install to another flash drive, I want to put FreeNAS onto a hard drive, I understand that means FreeNAS will absorb the whole drive, thats fine its a 160GB Seagate that I have no reason to use as storage space. Booting from the USB is smooth, I can pick the hard drive which is listed as ada1 and the installation completes without error. Once I go to reboot I remove the flash drive and the system loads the GRUB boot loader but after a few minutes of loading goes into recovery mode. Using the ls command brinds up several hard drives and one floppy drive, however the only thing plugged into the machine is the single 160GB hard drive. I've tried reinstalling multiple times each with the same result, I've swapped 160GB hard drives and they are known to be good (they were pulled from functioning machines and disk scans reported no errors) I re imaged the flashdrive, tried enabling AHCI in the bios, setting the SATA controller to compatibility mode instead of enhanced, nothing.
I'm away from the server right now but its an older intel board (cant remember model but its paired to the CPU's) running dual quad core Intel Xenon processors clocked at 1.6Ghz (got a feel for the age yet?) With 16GB EEC ram. 800W corsair PSU, with all required hookups to the motherboard. As well as a 3ware 8006-2lp RAID storage controller acting as a JBOD and one Adaptec 2405 RAID controller acting as JBOD.
If there are any simple solutions to try, i'm up for it. I couldnt find anything with my particular problem searching the forums.
I downloaded the ISO as well as Win32Diskimager and created the boot disk on a 16 GB Sandisk flash drive. I do not want to install to another flash drive, I want to put FreeNAS onto a hard drive, I understand that means FreeNAS will absorb the whole drive, thats fine its a 160GB Seagate that I have no reason to use as storage space. Booting from the USB is smooth, I can pick the hard drive which is listed as ada1 and the installation completes without error. Once I go to reboot I remove the flash drive and the system loads the GRUB boot loader but after a few minutes of loading goes into recovery mode. Using the ls command brinds up several hard drives and one floppy drive, however the only thing plugged into the machine is the single 160GB hard drive. I've tried reinstalling multiple times each with the same result, I've swapped 160GB hard drives and they are known to be good (they were pulled from functioning machines and disk scans reported no errors) I re imaged the flashdrive, tried enabling AHCI in the bios, setting the SATA controller to compatibility mode instead of enhanced, nothing.
I'm away from the server right now but its an older intel board (cant remember model but its paired to the CPU's) running dual quad core Intel Xenon processors clocked at 1.6Ghz (got a feel for the age yet?) With 16GB EEC ram. 800W corsair PSU, with all required hookups to the motherboard. As well as a 3ware 8006-2lp RAID storage controller acting as a JBOD and one Adaptec 2405 RAID controller acting as JBOD.
If there are any simple solutions to try, i'm up for it. I couldnt find anything with my particular problem searching the forums.