grahambunce
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Hi... and help?
I'm a 100% FreeNAS and Linux noob so I hope you can help. My FreeNAS has been running fine for months but about a week after the last update (9.10-STABLE) it dropped off the network. When I booted it back up, it starts the boot process fine, waits on one of my disks (I think), clears the screen really fast, flashes some more text and then locks up. When it locks up, the screen is filled with white vertical bars so I can't see anything that was on the screen prior.
I tried using a previous install but these fail in the same way.
Maybe it's my USB boot drive (SanDisk Cruzer) that's gone, but then it does actually start booting.
I had a failed disk a few months ago, replaced it and rebuild the array fine.... though it was odd in that the failed disk locked up the FreeNAS boot sequence completely (i.e.FreeNAS wouldn't actually start until I took the drive out).... this may be normal behaviour, or a red herring.
I don't really know how to get access to the boot log. I've tried booting into grub command console instead, but none of the commands make any sense :(
Obviously concerned about my data if I need to rebuild the FreeNAS system - these are on a ZFS RAID 10 but can a new FreeNAS install just pick up the array as if it was any other disk?
Really not sure where to start until I can get hold of the boot log to find out what command (if any) is causing FreeNAS to lock up...
btw, running on a HP N54L microserver with 8GB RAM, and 4 2TB desktop grade hard disks, additional USB3 PCI card (in case it may now be causing a conflict?)
Many thanks
I'm a 100% FreeNAS and Linux noob so I hope you can help. My FreeNAS has been running fine for months but about a week after the last update (9.10-STABLE) it dropped off the network. When I booted it back up, it starts the boot process fine, waits on one of my disks (I think), clears the screen really fast, flashes some more text and then locks up. When it locks up, the screen is filled with white vertical bars so I can't see anything that was on the screen prior.
I tried using a previous install but these fail in the same way.
Maybe it's my USB boot drive (SanDisk Cruzer) that's gone, but then it does actually start booting.
I had a failed disk a few months ago, replaced it and rebuild the array fine.... though it was odd in that the failed disk locked up the FreeNAS boot sequence completely (i.e.FreeNAS wouldn't actually start until I took the drive out).... this may be normal behaviour, or a red herring.
I don't really know how to get access to the boot log. I've tried booting into grub command console instead, but none of the commands make any sense :(
Obviously concerned about my data if I need to rebuild the FreeNAS system - these are on a ZFS RAID 10 but can a new FreeNAS install just pick up the array as if it was any other disk?
Really not sure where to start until I can get hold of the boot log to find out what command (if any) is causing FreeNAS to lock up...
btw, running on a HP N54L microserver with 8GB RAM, and 4 2TB desktop grade hard disks, additional USB3 PCI card (in case it may now be causing a conflict?)
Many thanks