I'm stumped. I've been trying to install FreeNAS 11.1-U6 on a USB stick, but something about it always freezes the BIOS on the PC I want to use. The motherboard is an older model: Gigabyte GA-D525TUD Atom board, which has some USB2 ports but no USB3s.
I'm aware this freezing can happen with faulty hardware, when the BIOS detects something odd it just hangs. Something like this: https://superuser.com/questions/926...eeze-on-boot-if-i-have-a-usb-flash-plugged-in
The weird thing is that I've done everything I can think of:
- different brand USBs
- USB2 and USB3
- Formatted using dd/fdisk, again with dosfstools and again with Windows.
- Upgraded BIOS
Through all this it's become obvious that it isn't a hardware problem. It will always freeze the PC if a USB (with FreeNAS installed) is inserted when the BIOS is running, and the USB won't cause freezing:
- On other PCs
- On the same PC once something has booted
- On the same PC after being reformatted
I think there is something about the FreeNAS boot sector that is causing the trouble, but I have no idea how to test or fix this.
I'm aware this freezing can happen with faulty hardware, when the BIOS detects something odd it just hangs. Something like this: https://superuser.com/questions/926...eeze-on-boot-if-i-have-a-usb-flash-plugged-in
The weird thing is that I've done everything I can think of:
- different brand USBs
- USB2 and USB3
- Formatted using dd/fdisk, again with dosfstools and again with Windows.
- Upgraded BIOS
Through all this it's become obvious that it isn't a hardware problem. It will always freeze the PC if a USB (with FreeNAS installed) is inserted when the BIOS is running, and the USB won't cause freezing:
- On other PCs
- On the same PC once something has booted
- On the same PC after being reformatted
I think there is something about the FreeNAS boot sector that is causing the trouble, but I have no idea how to test or fix this.
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