airflow
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Hello!
Yesterday my girlfriend tried to recover a seemingly lost bread in our toaster in the kitchen by poking with a metal fork in it. This produced a short-circuit which led to an power-outage in my flat. After recovery, I found that my FreeNAS-installation couldn't boot any more.
The installation boots from two usb-bootsticks as bootdevice, 6 WD HDs as main storage pool (Z2), and an NVME-SSD for the jails. Mainboard is ASRock Rack E3C226D2I with 16GB ECC RAM.
The failing boot-process looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6c-eteYED4
I tried to boot the installation multiple times, with varying UBS bootstick configuration. I removed either of the two UBS-sticks and booted from each of them separately to rule out a hardware-problem there. Booting from either of them worked, but it kept crashing. The problem persisted and looked always the same.
After I while I desparately tried an older boot-entry, 11.3-U1. This worked and the system returned to normal! The usb-sticks are fine and scrubbing works.
Then I wanted to update this old, working system again to 11.3-U2. This worked and created an boot-entry 11.3-U2.1. But when booting into this new system, it first ran some update-scripts (with database-conversion and stuff) and then booted again, after which it again failed to boot and crashed.
So what is this? I then tried to remove all 11.3-U2 boot-partitions on the freens-boot and re-do the updates. But this fails, too, as removing the boot-partition "11.3-U2.1" does not work without any error-message.
I'm at loss now - could you please help me finding out and fixing the problem here?
Thanks,
airflow
Yesterday my girlfriend tried to recover a seemingly lost bread in our toaster in the kitchen by poking with a metal fork in it. This produced a short-circuit which led to an power-outage in my flat. After recovery, I found that my FreeNAS-installation couldn't boot any more.
The installation boots from two usb-bootsticks as bootdevice, 6 WD HDs as main storage pool (Z2), and an NVME-SSD for the jails. Mainboard is ASRock Rack E3C226D2I with 16GB ECC RAM.
The failing boot-process looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6c-eteYED4
I tried to boot the installation multiple times, with varying UBS bootstick configuration. I removed either of the two UBS-sticks and booted from each of them separately to rule out a hardware-problem there. Booting from either of them worked, but it kept crashing. The problem persisted and looked always the same.
After I while I desparately tried an older boot-entry, 11.3-U1. This worked and the system returned to normal! The usb-sticks are fine and scrubbing works.
Then I wanted to update this old, working system again to 11.3-U2. This worked and created an boot-entry 11.3-U2.1. But when booting into this new system, it first ran some update-scripts (with database-conversion and stuff) and then booted again, after which it again failed to boot and crashed.
So what is this? I then tried to remove all 11.3-U2 boot-partitions on the freens-boot and re-do the updates. But this fails, too, as removing the boot-partition "11.3-U2.1" does not work without any error-message.
I'm at loss now - could you please help me finding out and fixing the problem here?
Thanks,
airflow