Installing FreeNAS doesn't work, hardware inside.

[Ronver Systems]

Hi all,

My name is Christophe from Ronver Systems, Belgium.
A client of us wants to install FreeNAS on a system we sold them.
The system has a S2600CP4 motherboard and 2 Xeon E5-2609 CPU's and 16GB DDR3 ECC REG RAM.
This should be compatible, right?

Also, the client described the following problem:
The moment FreeNAS should boot from CD to start installing, the entire system freezes, keyboard doesn't respond or anything.
He tried changing the primary boot device to CD in BIOS and using the boot menu and selecting the DVD drive, both with the same results as described above.

Any suggestions are welcome, I have next to no experience with FreeNAS.

Thanks and kind regards,
Christophe
Ronver Systems

 

[Ronver Systems]

We solved it, the system had an ATTO RAID card, when we pulled the card out it would boot without problem.]
We replaced it with an Areca card, and the client is happy.

 

[jgreco]

Yuck.

 

[Knowltey]

FreeNAS shouldn't have ANY RAID card whatsoever. FreeNAS is designed with it having direct access to all drives in mind. Using a hardware RAID controller will completely defeat the purpose of using FreeNAS as your NAS solution. Any RAID configurations should be set up directly in FreeNAS and handled directly by FreeNAS.