FreeNAS Mini XL - Won't boot to SATA DOM

[dpearcefl]

Bought a FreeNAS Mini XL and have been configuring it at my desk. I carefully moved it this morning to it's permanent location. On boot I get "This is a NAS data disk and can not boot system. System halted."

When the system is booting is I wait until the Marvel screen shows and press Control M, the boot disk shows there. If I wait a little longer and press F2 to get into the BIOS, I do not see the drive (or the ZIL or L2ARC) listed.

How do I get this system to boot from the DOM?

 

[m0nkey_]

Not not 100% sure, but I believe the DOM is supposed to be attached to the Intel controller on that board. Have you tried moving it to rule out the Marvel controller?

 

[dpearcefl]

It appears to be glued into the socket. It came plugged into a Marvel socket.

I see the drive in Advanced "Storage Configuration" screen. But it is not listed in the Boot Option #1 pulldown.

If I let the post process get to the end and press F11 to select the boot device, it is listed and if I select it, it goes into FreeNAS.

 

[m0nkey_]

Since it's a iX Systems product, it'll be worth opening a support ticket: https://support.ixsystems.com/

 

[dpearcefl]

Got it running. I don't remember the exact BIOS wording (because it is booted and working now), but I needed to change the BBS boot order. Once, I did that, all is well.

 

[Arwen]

Yep, a SATA DOM should work just fine in a Marvel SATA port. My FreeNAS Mini, (same system board
as the XL), had it's original SATA DOM in a Marvel SATA port. When I added a mirror to it, I also used a
Marvel SATA port. Both seem to work fine, though I don't know if it will auto-boot off my mirror on complete
failure of the original SATA DOM.