Whilst attempting to install TrueNAS CORE v13-U4 on my LGA1700 i3-12100 based system, I too have gotten the 'blank screen' issue after the initial post, and boot of the USB installer (flashed via Etcher). The installer loads, I select #1 to boot into the installer wizard and unfortunately, all I get is a blank screen, except for the flashing cursor at the top-left corner of the screen.
There have also been other recent reports of this on other intel hardware dating back to the 9th/10th Gen intel platforms, those using the i915kms driver. These posts are:
Cant install on LGA 1200 | TrueNAS Community
TrueNAS Scale - Black screen on boot | TrueNAS Community. (this one is for SCALE)
The OP @Dwight Turner of the first post in the TrueNAS forum above had included a couple screenshots showing this quite well.
What I noticed though is that this is occurring at the bootloader, before the OS image has loaded so the fixes outlined in those posts weren't working for me. I thought well maybe I can do the unreccomended thing of building my own ISO installer using the original from source, and after a lot of work getting that to work, I realized after trying to install it that doing so would never work because the TrueNAS installer found my installation source to be corrupt, as a result of the changes and repacking of the hybrid-ISO.
So that said, I decided to try installing via #2, serial. Well this was quite easy and worked well. Interestingly, unlike when I selected #1 in the installer for the display driver install method, using #2 for serial still displayed the console output on the display, as I could see all the modules that were loading along the way. The interactive installer wizard still only displayed via my serial connection, but this leads me to believe that this issue is less of a display driver issue, and more of an issue with how TrueNAS is displaying content on systems using newer intel built-in graphics (Intel HD/UHD Graphics).
Then, odd enough, I thought that post install, I would need to make the changes as outlined in the workarounds from the forum posts above. Nope. Post-install, TrueNAS booted normally, and I can see all the typical menu options for initial system config. Unless I'm thinking about this entirely wrong, which is possible, this kind of confirms my thought process that there is not a display driver issue, but rather a display output issue.
Any thoughts?
There have also been other recent reports of this on other intel hardware dating back to the 9th/10th Gen intel platforms, those using the i915kms driver. These posts are:
Cant install on LGA 1200 | TrueNAS Community
TrueNAS Scale - Black screen on boot | TrueNAS Community. (this one is for SCALE)
The OP @Dwight Turner of the first post in the TrueNAS forum above had included a couple screenshots showing this quite well.
What I noticed though is that this is occurring at the bootloader, before the OS image has loaded so the fixes outlined in those posts weren't working for me. I thought well maybe I can do the unreccomended thing of building my own ISO installer using the original from source, and after a lot of work getting that to work, I realized after trying to install it that doing so would never work because the TrueNAS installer found my installation source to be corrupt, as a result of the changes and repacking of the hybrid-ISO.
So that said, I decided to try installing via #2, serial. Well this was quite easy and worked well. Interestingly, unlike when I selected #1 in the installer for the display driver install method, using #2 for serial still displayed the console output on the display, as I could see all the modules that were loading along the way. The interactive installer wizard still only displayed via my serial connection, but this leads me to believe that this issue is less of a display driver issue, and more of an issue with how TrueNAS is displaying content on systems using newer intel built-in graphics (Intel HD/UHD Graphics).
Then, odd enough, I thought that post install, I would need to make the changes as outlined in the workarounds from the forum posts above. Nope. Post-install, TrueNAS booted normally, and I can see all the typical menu options for initial system config. Unless I'm thinking about this entirely wrong, which is possible, this kind of confirms my thought process that there is not a display driver issue, but rather a display output issue.
Any thoughts?
