Just rebuilt my system. On first boot I'm getting an odd message?

[jackdinn]

I dont know if im just going mad or what but im sure i dont remember seeing this before.

I have just done a full system re-build right down to the mobo, but i was very careful to mark the order and connection position of all the drives.

Now when i boot i am seeing this bios messaging fly past the screen, but as i say im sure it was never there before.

What does it mean, please?

It then goes into the TrueNAS boot menu after this last pic. Everything seems to be working fine, so I'm confused, :( I don't like having such unknown potential hardware issues when iv just been tinkering with a system.

My system boot menu showing the drives:-

Code:

truenas% zpool status -v
pool: NAS-main
state: ONLINE
config:

NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
NAS-main                                        ONLINE       0     0     0
raidz2-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
gptid/a6a6224b-8d18-11ed-b40c-c4346b65b332  ONLINE       0     0     0
gptid/a6be27d2-8d18-11ed-b40c-c4346b65b332  ONLINE       0     0     0
gptid/a68db70b-8d18-11ed-b40c-c4346b65b332  ONLINE       0     0     0
gptid/a6b252a4-8d18-11ed-b40c-c4346b65b332  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

pool: boot-pool
state: ONLINE
scan: resilvered 2.64G in 00:00:11 with 0 errors on Thu Jan  5 17:12:52 2023
config:

NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
boot-pool   ONLINE       0     0     0
mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
ada0p2  ONLINE       0     0     0
ada1p2  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

pool: dellhdd
state: ONLINE
config:

NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
dellhdd                                       ONLINE       0     0     0
gptid/f8f4ce85-8df1-11ed-8859-c4346b65b332  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

 

[winnielinnie]

Might just be some more checks / verbosity of FreeBSD 13+ EFI boot executable that you're seeing on bootup.

Not sure what these "23 block devices" are, unless you just have that many drives/partitions in your system which it probes during bootup.

How do you have your system's bootup options configured under your BIOS screens?

 

[jackdinn]

How do you have your system's bootup options configured under your BIOS screens?

Sorry not sure what you mean here, it just boot from the ssd.

I dont have 23 anything that i know of. I have 2 mirrored ssd's to boot from and 4 raidz2 drives and another little drive i was just tinkering with but its all exactly how it was before.

I have just tested with a truenas install usb stick and it loads up fine, it does not throw these errors at all,

I might have to try reinstalling truenas but i really dont want to as it works fine it's just going to annoy me knowing that those errors are there and that they should not be.

 

[winnielinnie]

Sorry not sure what you mean here, it just boot from the ssd.

Legacy, Secure Boot, TPM, other options, etc.

 

[jackdinn]

hmm odd. Iv just noticed (while going through my bios) that my VTx virtualization has been switched off! I know 100% i had it on because i have a few virtual machines on TNAS. However, switching it back on has not changed the error text stream.

I assume im using UEFI to boot (secure mode disabled) I dont even think this old HP Z420 has TPM or anything else like that. (But it does have 24 processor threads & 128GB ram and space now that iv added a caddy to change the 3 DVD spaces into 4X3.5" HDD so thats 2 SSD's + 7 HDD's Im happy (if it had not gone all cranky on me ^^)

 

[jackdinn]

I think something odd has happened to my bios, because i did notice the virtualization has been switched off, but i cant see anything else that is incorrect/different.

Id still just love to know what that bios message stream is trying to say.

 

[jackdinn]

Well, iv reset the bios to factory & I've wiped the 2 SSDs and reinstalled Truenas. It has made no difference so all I can assume is it was always doing it, it's just that i never really noticed, i maybe only noticed because I had been tinkering and was on the lookout for anything odd.

I just can't help but feel I was sure iv never seen that particular text scroll between the BIOS and the TrueNAS dos startup option menu.

I wish someone could say "o that is supposed to be there, I have it on my HP NAS at boot"

Just so odd to me.

 

[Morris]

I don't see anything unusual and your system is booting into TrueNAS

 

[jackdinn]

I don't see anything unusual and your system is booting into TrueNAS

HI, Thx for the response. I have also had the system freeze 4 times on boot at the point shown in pic. It just freezes and has to be forced to shut down. Odd things like this are happening when they never did before.

Its was ok this morning, touch wood.

I wonder if its my power supply, i'v got a lot of drives in there, 8 ram stick (although its low power ram) and only a 600W psu.

Maybe i shall reseat everything.

Maybe its all nothing :-/

 

[Morris]

This is a link to a power supply load calculator

Power Supply Calculator - PSU Calculator | OuterVision

Power Supply Calculator - Select computer parts and our online PSU calculator will calculate the required power supply wattage and amperage for your PC.

outervision.com

Try running a memory test. That's a common problem.

 

[jackdinn]

Cool, thx.

So it looks like the PSU is plenty, i don't have anything taxing except the banks of sata hdd's but it says I'm fine.

I did start a mem test but even though it said it would only take 10 mins it seemed to be taking one hell of a lot longer. I shall try again and let it run for however long it requires.

Iv never used freeBSD before, the package management is quite alien to me but Iv just managed to get inxi working via ssh. ^^

Iv been doing cable management as best i can today. The system has been fine today.

Code:

truenas% sudo inxi -b
System:
Host: truenas.local Kernel: 13.1-RELEASE-p2 arch: amd64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/0
OS: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p2
Machine:
Type: Mini Tower System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z420 Workstation v: N/A serial: CZC444075X
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1589 v: 0.00 serial: CZC444075X UEFI: Hewlett-Packard
v: J61 v03.96 rev: 3.96 date: 10/29/2019
CPU:
Info: 24-core Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 [MCP] speed (MHz): 2693
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GF108GL [Quadro 600] driver: vgapci
Display: server: No display server data found. Headless machine? tty: 172x37
API: N/A Message: No display API data available in console. Headless machine?
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: em
Drives:
Local Storage: total: raw: 15.93 TiB usable: 23.94 TiB used: 46.24 GiB (0.2%)
Info:
RAM: total: 127.88 GiB used: 6.38 GiB (5.0%)
Array-1: capacity: 256 GiB slots: 8 EC: Multi-bit ECC
Devices-1-8: CPU0-DIMM1-8 type: DDR3 size: 16 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
Processes: 108 Uptime: 1h 59m 
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.24

 

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