FreeNas Installation Not Permitted

[broncosjkb]

Hello I have recently purchased an Isilon 12000x and I was looking to install FreeNas on the system as I have had experience with it before. I installed the ISO and uploaded it to a USB and made it bootable with Rufus. I boot into the USB stick and I able start the installation process. I go to Select the 15GB drive that is used for the OS (ada0) and I get the following error:

gmirror: no such device: swap.
dd: /dev/ada0: operation not permitted
The FreeNas installation on ada0 Failed.

I have tried these two commands in the shell.

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m count=1

I have seen people fix this error with the above commands but I have a feeling it has something to do with the gmirror? I am new to the server and FreeNas world so any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[Yorick]

Maybe this will help? https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/operation-not-permitted-when-trying-to-wipe-disks.69240/

How much memory in that 12000x, by the way? I see those with 4GiB (below minimum specs) to 12GiB(much better)

 

[broncosjkb]

it has 12GB of RAM. I tried using fdisk and did not get the same output he did.

fdisk -l /dev/ada0 returns an illegal option. It does not like the -l switch

I thought it was a 1 and tried 'fdisk -1 /dev/ada0' which returned an output but it was not the same as the guy in the post.

I ran the dd just to try and it transferred zero bytes, probably because I did not get sector size right?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=512 count=100 seek=976773068

I see people talked about gparted, is that something I should try?

thank you for your help!

 

[Yorick]

You’re trying to zero the end of that drive, for which you need its size. gparted may be able to tell you what the size is so you can calculate the seek for dd.