I need help upgrading to GUI

[Shiroi Kage]

Hello,

I have FreeNAS 9, 64x, installed successfully on a collection of old hardware that I call a rig but I can't figure out how to upgrade it to a GUI version. The guide talks about using iso and I can't find the iso GUI upgrade file, all I can find is the txz but I'm not sure how I can use that (I was able to extract it but I don't know where to go from there)

Please advise.

 

[leenux_tux]

Shiroi,

I hope I am understanding you correctly, apologies if I am not.

You don't actually "upgrade to a GUI version", but "Upgrade via the GUI". When you install FreeNAS, the locally attached screen is just text (with a bunch of numbered options) for changing network settings, accessing the shell, shutdown reboot etc etc. A GUI (webpages) is installed when you installed FreeNAS and can be accessed via a web browser from another network attached system.

There is a message at the bottom of the numbered text that says something like "You can access your system from IP Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" (might not be exactly like that, I don't have my FreeNAS system in front of me). Enter that address into your web-browser and you will then be accessing the FreeNas GUI

 

[Shiroi Kage]

Thank you for your answer.

I can't see any network information on the screen. Once FreeNAS is booted into the console, the first things I can enter are under mountroot> and entering an empty line apparently "aborts manual input" and goes into where I can enter commands under db> (commands like panic and whatnot)

Also, this box has only a single drive as a boot drive at the moment. Could that have anything to do with anything?

 

[pirateghost]

Mountroot means your install is not working.

Sent from my Nexus 5

 

[gpsguy]

Ditto what pirateghost said.

Please tell us more about your hardware specs. How much RAM do you have?

Have you read the official FreeNAS documentation (PDF file on software download page)?


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[Shiroi Kage]

So I should try and reinstall the OS?
By the way, when I first installed FreeNAS the boot drive was unpartitioned. Since it can "boot" right now without the CD I'm guessing it was partitioned.

 

[Shiroi Kage]

For hardware specs:-

Intel Extreme Motherboard (DX58SO2)
RAM: 6 sticks of 4GB Corsair Dominator 1600MHz downclocked to 1333 or a total of 24GB.
CPU: Intel i7 980.
Boot Drive: Intel 120GB SSD
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 58-- something, I can't remember.
PSU is a Thermaltake 1kW

 

[Shiroi Kage]

As for the question of whether or not I read the guide, I was going in order and it was the guide's instructions to installation that I followed.

EDIT: I also see an error 19.

 

[gpsguy]

Search the forum for the "error 19" thread. You probably need to disable Some BIOS settings including USB 3.0 support.

FreeNAS is typically installed on a 4Gb flash drive. The OS is about 2Gb in size. It's a waste of your SSD, since you can't use the extra space for anything else.


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[Shiroi Kage]

Thanks for the advice.

I found the thread yesterday after writing this (it's a long freaking thread) and ended finding people who managed to make it work by disabling xHCI. I think I will just start disabling things like fast boot and everything else that is not needed.
As for the SSD, I have it as a boot drive because it's an old SSD that I, for the time being, have no other use for. When I need this 8th port for storage I will switch to USB :)

 

[Shiroi Kage]

Solved by disabling S.M.A.R.T. devices (of which I don't think I have any)
This is one of the most random things ever.

 

[pirateghost]

Solved by disabling S.M.A.R.T. devices (of which I don't think I have any)
This is one of the most random things ever.

you WANT SMART. unless you are using hard drives from a decade long past, you do indeed have SMART on your drives.

 

[Shiroi Kage]

you WANT SMART. unless you are using hard drives from a decade long past, you do indeed have SMART on your drives.

Well, it seems the OS enables SMART once it starts (values for each drive are true under SMART when I browse my drives) It's just that it won't boot if I have SMART enabled in the BIOS.

 

[cyberjock]

Then I'd get a new motherboard. Disabling smart is disabling one of your 2 main ways to find failing disks.

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[Shiroi Kage]

Then I'd get a new motherboard. Disabling smart is disabling one of your 2 main ways to find failing disks.

Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk

So you're saying SMART is not working even when the OS checks "true" below it? Couldn't the OS have forced an initiation once it booted?
EDIT: This is what that looks like http://imgur.com/utBmAfJ
EDIT2: Do you know any good PCIe SATA controller cards? It's my first time getting one and it seems the cheaper options work in general but I'm not sure which ones would work with FreeNAS.

 

[gpsguy]

An IBM M1015, flashed to IT mode, is highly recommended. You'll also need breakout cables for it.

The board costs about $120 USD on ebay.

Do you know any good PCIe SATA controller cards?

 

[gpsguy]

An IBM M1015, flashed to IT mode, is highly recommended. You'll also need breakout cables for it.

The board costs about $120 USD on ebay.

Do you know any good PCIe SATA controller cards?