SOLVED Installing 11 RC1, SanDisk Ultra Fit device not listed as possible destination devices

[darthvader42]

I'm trying to install 11 RC1. I have Asrock C2550D4I based box having 4 harddiscs and 2 ssds. FreeNAS should be installed to a plugged SanDisk Ultra Fit, installation iso image is copied to a USB key (Toshiba TransMemory).

Both USB devices are properly detected, SanDisk is da0, Toshiba is da1, see camcontrol devlist output

Upon install only the Toshiba device is listed as target device but not the SanDisk one, see

Why doesn't it bring up da0 as potential destination device. The SanDisk device contains a single partition formatted with mkfs.vfat (done on Linux). Any hints?

 

[scurrier]

Is the SandDisk device USB 3? One shot in the dark would be to consider if USB 3 is causing some issues here. There may be some BIOS settings dealing with USB 3 boot devices that you might have to enable. Or UEFI settings.

 

[darthvader42]

According to hardware specs (http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2550D4I#Specifications) the mainboard doesn't have USB3, so I guess we can rule that out.

 

[Ericloewe]

Maybe it's the partitioning that's throwing off the installer.

 

[darthvader42]

Indeed there was some partitioning messup on the USB device.

On Linux I've used

Code:

wipefs --all /dev/sd[myname]

to clean it up.

 

[Ericloewe]

And it worked normally from there?

 

[darthvader42]

Yup, the `wipefs` command helped. Afterwards I've used `fdisk` to create one single partition occupying the full USB key and run a `mkfs.vfat` on it.

 

[wblock]

Afterwards I've used `fdisk` to create one single partition occupying the full USB key and run a `mkfs.vfat` on it.

That is not necessary.