I've spent a little over 16 hours at this point tinkering with installing FreeNAS on an old PC. I've tried multiple versions, including 11.3, 11.1, several versions from 9, and probable a select few others. I've tried flashing the ISO to multiple USB devices, as well as DVD-RW, from multiple programs and operating systems. I don't think boot media is my issue.
My hardware is AMD A6-3650 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2600 Mhz
Dual Channel 4096 MB DDR3 for a total of ~8Gigs
Motherboard is AAHD2-HY HP "Holly"
After day one of troubleshooting, I came across the FreeBSD hardware requirements and couldn't find my motherboard's chipset, so I figured it just wasn't possible, and gave up. This morning, I decided to confirm that by loading up the latest FreeBSD on a USB, and whaddya know, it booted right up and installed with no problems, to FreeBSD compatibility doesn't seem to be the issue, either.
When installing older versions, it returns the screen from the attached image.
At this point, I'm wondering if it's possible to install FreeNAS on top of FreeBSD, rather than doing a clean install. I can't think of any other possible solutions. My bios options are severely limited, so I can't even change most of the settings that I see brought up in other threads.
Any help at all would be appreciated, I just can't make myself give up after getting FreeBSD to load.
Thanks in advance!
My hardware is AMD A6-3650 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2600 Mhz
Dual Channel 4096 MB DDR3 for a total of ~8Gigs
Motherboard is AAHD2-HY HP "Holly"
After day one of troubleshooting, I came across the FreeBSD hardware requirements and couldn't find my motherboard's chipset, so I figured it just wasn't possible, and gave up. This morning, I decided to confirm that by loading up the latest FreeBSD on a USB, and whaddya know, it booted right up and installed with no problems, to FreeBSD compatibility doesn't seem to be the issue, either.
When installing older versions, it returns the screen from the attached image.
At this point, I'm wondering if it's possible to install FreeNAS on top of FreeBSD, rather than doing a clean install. I can't think of any other possible solutions. My bios options are severely limited, so I can't even change most of the settings that I see brought up in other threads.
Any help at all would be appreciated, I just can't make myself give up after getting FreeBSD to load.
Thanks in advance!