SOLVED Freenas wont boot

[graphicsman]

The other day in my area we had a storm with a lot of wind and late that night I had a surge kill my power within 5 mins three times from a tree falling on a breaker. My Freenas was behind an APC battery backup but now I cant get it to boot up and I get an error:

Code:

Error 5, untryable error
init died (signal 6, exit 0)
panic: Going nowhere without my init!
cpuid = 0
KDB: enter: panic
Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3b: movq $0,0x9e8212(zrip)

Its only my second week using Freenas. I did research before I built my system and I am running 8gb Crucial RAM on ZFS with 4 identical 2TB IBM drives. My version of Freenas is 9.1.1x64. I installed Freenas on a 32gb Crucial thumb drive.

How can I repair this and get the data off my drives? I've spent all week loading everything to them I was, at the time, working on a second Freenas for redundancy and now I am in a pickle. I have tried pulling the drive and mounting them with an exteral dock on Mac, Ubuntu and Windows 7 but nothing.

Could really use some guidance, thanks. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong area that forum said post here if unsure.

EDIT:
If I re-installed Freenas on my USB drive would the data still be accessible after?

 

[gpsguy]

Try a fresh install of FreeNAS onto a different thumb drive. Then try auto-importing your disks. If you made a backup copy of your configuration, you can restore it - else you'll have to recreate your settings, shares, etc.

Hopefully you didn't damage the disks by pulling them and trying to mount them with another OS.

 

[graphicsman]

thanks.. Do you mind posting me how to import a drive? I'll shutdown my Freenas and install a new copy on another USB stick I have.

 

[gpsguy]

Please see section 6.3.1 (Auto Importing Volumes) of the manual.

 

[cyberjock]

thanks.. Do you mind posting me how to import a drive? I'll shutdown my Freenas and install a new copy on another USB stick I have.

The manual gives step-by-step directions.. doc.freenas.org.

 

[graphicsman]

hey that worked.. learned something new today with Freenas. A little scary to learn it though but I installed Freenas on another USB and then plugged all the drives back up to the ports they were assigned to and imported the volume, created a new user and all the information appears to be there. Thanks guys! Just curious but can you change the IP in Freenas because I dont see it in the documentation but it does state you can in the GUI

 

[gpsguy]

You can set a static IP address from the console setup menu. It's #1 on the menu, you'll want to ensure that #4 and #6 have correct values.

You need to revist your UPS configuration. It should be set so that it shuts down FreeNAS gracefully in the event of a power failure. If the "surge kill my power within 5 mins three times" it sounds like there's a problem.

Also keep a backup of your configuration; System → Settings → General → Save Config. Or search the forum to learn how to do it automatically via a cron job.

 

[graphicsman]

Thanks for the input. The power issue was with the APC when it was going to the battery it tripped something in it and caused it to beep. I replaced it so I hope there are no more issues.