FreeNAS Install Crash'n'Burning... ahcich7: Timeout

[gyrfalcon]

Hi.

I was hoping to maybe get some suggestions on what's going wrong when I try to install FreeNAS. This system was running XCP-NG fine previously. New blank hard drives are on the LSI controller but I don't think that matters since FreeNAS is not installed. No SMART errors on any of the system drives.

I'm just trying to install FreeNAS on the SSD (ada0) but it keeps crashing on me. Do I maybe have to disable the SATA controller on motherboard?

https://i.imgur.com/Uc1uVR8.jpg

• GA-Z77X-UD3H (rev. 1.1)
• Intel i7-3770K
• 4x8GB =32GB
• Eight 10TB WD Reds on LSI / Samsung 512GB SSD M.2 SATA on motherboard
• LSI SAS 9300-8i
• SATA DVD

 

[gyrfalcon]

I tried sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 .....
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=512 seek=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m oseek=`diskinfo ada3 | awk '{print int($3 / (1024*1024)) - 4;}'` <--Whatever the hell this is...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0
camcontrol devlist
gpart show

the drive and other stuff in the forums... gpart destroy -F ada0 would not work. WTF?!

FreeNAS didn't like any of this junk. Disabled unused SATA and options in BIOS and re-flashed board with 20FE.

FreeNAS decided to install without any problems.