hi,
i have been reading through past forum posts about the HPE Microserver Gen10 and after some initial problems people seemed to have success installing FreeNAS. i bought one and now i'm stuck at installation.
hardware:
HPE Gen10 3216 8GB RAM.
BIOS version from august 2018, this is supposed to be the most recent one.
UEFI boot mode (seems to work)
No hard disks mounted yet.
Three USB sticks in total: Toshiba 32GB USB 3.1; Kingston 32GB USB 3.1; No-name 16GB USB 2.0
i was able to get the initial boot medium to boot from USB and access the console after setting the boot options like this:
set hw.pci.realloc_bars=1
this worked only with the USB 3.1 sticks, the USB 2 stick failed at mounting iso9660://<something>
in the next step, i am trying to install the system onto a USB stick. this almost works, but it's ultra slow. i'm seeing exactly the symptoms described here:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...ailed-multiple-times-middlewared-error.73952/
i tried various combinations of different USB sticks, so far no luck getting it to work at tolerable speeds. the installation does work eventually, but booting then takes many minutes, and i get errors about middlewared not loading.
in the thread above, the solution was to use a USB 2 stick in a USB2 socket; i just tried this with the no-name stick, but the installation is again taking more than 1h.
is USB generally unreliable for installing FreeNAS? i though this was the recommended method? it's really hit and miss for me. i want to install to USB since i would like the only non-HDD SATA port to be for a DVD rom.
i have been reading through past forum posts about the HPE Microserver Gen10 and after some initial problems people seemed to have success installing FreeNAS. i bought one and now i'm stuck at installation.
hardware:
HPE Gen10 3216 8GB RAM.
BIOS version from august 2018, this is supposed to be the most recent one.
UEFI boot mode (seems to work)
No hard disks mounted yet.
Three USB sticks in total: Toshiba 32GB USB 3.1; Kingston 32GB USB 3.1; No-name 16GB USB 2.0
i was able to get the initial boot medium to boot from USB and access the console after setting the boot options like this:
set hw.pci.realloc_bars=1
this worked only with the USB 3.1 sticks, the USB 2 stick failed at mounting iso9660://<something>
in the next step, i am trying to install the system onto a USB stick. this almost works, but it's ultra slow. i'm seeing exactly the symptoms described here:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...ailed-multiple-times-middlewared-error.73952/
i tried various combinations of different USB sticks, so far no luck getting it to work at tolerable speeds. the installation does work eventually, but booting then takes many minutes, and i get errors about middlewared not loading.
in the thread above, the solution was to use a USB 2 stick in a USB2 socket; i just tried this with the no-name stick, but the installation is again taking more than 1h.
is USB generally unreliable for installing FreeNAS? i though this was the recommended method? it's really hit and miss for me. i want to install to USB since i would like the only non-HDD SATA port to be for a DVD rom.