Installation crashing Lenovo m700

[Blastic]

Hi. I have an m700 Lenovo mini pc that I am trying to install TRUNAS 13.0-U4 on.

The installation keeps crashing on me. Ive got it in legacy bios already.

Its got an i5 8500T
8GB ram
512 SATA SSD or a 256 m.2 sata (tried both)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Here is what happens:

TRUNAS Install crash, Lenovo M700 i5 6500T 8Gb, 512ssd

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[Whattteva]

Looks like a HW issue. I've never had a reboot mid base-os install and I've installed TrueNAS more times than I can count.

 

[Blastic]

Looks like a HW issue. I've never had a reboot mid base-os install and I've installed TrueNAS more times than I can count.

meaning... give up?

 

[Whattteva]

meaning... give up?

No. Meaning you should start the process of figuring out which part is causing stability issues. It could be any number of things from CPU overheating, faulty RAM, or faulty/overloaded PSU. You figure out which one by swapping them with other known stable components.

 

[Blastic]

No. Meaning you should start the process of figuring out which part is causing stability issues. It could be any number of things from CPU overheating, faulty RAM, or faulty/overloaded PSU. You figure out which one by swapping them with other known stable components.

I believe all hardware is ok. I am able to install windows and PF Sense, etc. Ram I put in is from a known computer. hardware diagnostics check out. Tried with both a m.2 drive and a standard sata.

Not sure what to try next.

Thanks for your help BTW.

 

[Blastic]

Update: Nata, still no go. Is there any way to install this on a similar computer and swap the hard drive, like one could with Windows... Or does the setup HAVE to be done on the exact hardware it will boot into?

 

[danb35]

Is there any way to install this on a similar computer and swap the hard drive, like one could with Windows.

Sure, and there's no pesky activation to deal with.

Now, nothing about "mini PC" sounds like "suitable hardware for a NAS," and you have half the minimum RAM, but it doesn't seem likely those are causing your immediate problem.

 

[Blastic]

Sure, and there's no pesky activation to deal with.

Now, nothing about "mini PC" sounds like "suitable hardware for a NAS," and you have half the minimum RAM, but it doesn't seem likely those are causing your immediate problem.

I have 8 GB ram in it and its a 6th gen i5. I thought 8gb was the min?

 

[Davvo]

I have 8 GB ram in it and its a 6th gen i5. I thought 8gb was the min?

It was 16GB since a while ago, now it appears to have shrunk back to 8 again. The majority of this forum's users consider 16 to be the minimum, meaning if you go lower than that you have to expect instability (but could be good enough for basic storage).

It might be a corrupt installer, try redownloading the OS and reflashing it on the boot media.

 

[sretalla]

Indeed the documentation now shows 8Gb for both versions, even if you can still find reference to 16Gb in some places (like this... https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/ see point 4.3)

 

[Blastic]

Indeed the documentation now shows 8Gb for both versions, even if you can still find reference to 16Gb in some places (like this... https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/ see point 4.3)

so, there is no chance that only 8gb ram is the problem, right?

 

[Davvo]

so, there is no chance that only 8gb ram is the problem, right?

Unlikely.