Hello all,
After searching through the forums, I can see that many many people have seen this panic issue arise. However, so for I have been unable to find any thread where the NAS won't even finish booting up.
I've been running FreeNAS 9.2.1 (I think) at home on an old Dell Dimension E521 for the past 2.5 years without any problems.
AMD Athlon 64 X2
8GB RAM
2x2 TB WD HDDs running on RAID 1
This past weekend it stopped working. It won't complete the booting process. The last thing I did before this happened was that I was moving a few things around on my network and pulled the network cable out of the back. When I reconnected the cable, FreeNAS did not re-establish its connection to the network. As I've had this happen several times I didn't even bother at the terminal, but instead just did a hard reboot by holding down the power button (probably a stupid mistake). I had actually done the same thing last week and it worked just fine. However this time it won't finish loading.
I will insert a screen shot in a second, but wanted to know a few things first.
I'm no expert when it comes to BSD. I've had limited experience with linux. So I can get around somewhat but may need a little help trying any suggestions that are posted here.
That being said, I've been wanting to upgrade to the latest version of FreeNAS for a long time so I was hoping to just grab a different thumb drive, install the latest version and start over with the machine altogether (instead of trying to fix this one). I don't mind re-doing the configuration if I have to - I just want to be able to easily import the data volumes from the old server. So is this possible? If I just stick a different thumb drive in the back with the latest version, will it recognize the volumes on the RAID? Or do I have to actually have another 2 HDDs, create a new pool and then import the old volumes to them?
Alternatively, if anyone understands the greek on this screen, I'm open to suggestions on how to fix the current configuration. I've done some research and tried to go in a add a line to the \boot\loader.conf that said something like kmem_size_scale=2 or something like that, but when I tried to exit the editor, it wouldn't save the changes. So I'd need some help figuring out how to edit any config files as the root user.
Can anyone help me out here? Thank you so much!
(I tried booting several times with all 4 sticks of RAM out one at a time in case it was a RAM problem)
After searching through the forums, I can see that many many people have seen this panic issue arise. However, so for I have been unable to find any thread where the NAS won't even finish booting up.
I've been running FreeNAS 9.2.1 (I think) at home on an old Dell Dimension E521 for the past 2.5 years without any problems.
AMD Athlon 64 X2
8GB RAM
2x2 TB WD HDDs running on RAID 1
This past weekend it stopped working. It won't complete the booting process. The last thing I did before this happened was that I was moving a few things around on my network and pulled the network cable out of the back. When I reconnected the cable, FreeNAS did not re-establish its connection to the network. As I've had this happen several times I didn't even bother at the terminal, but instead just did a hard reboot by holding down the power button (probably a stupid mistake). I had actually done the same thing last week and it worked just fine. However this time it won't finish loading.
I will insert a screen shot in a second, but wanted to know a few things first.
I'm no expert when it comes to BSD. I've had limited experience with linux. So I can get around somewhat but may need a little help trying any suggestions that are posted here.
That being said, I've been wanting to upgrade to the latest version of FreeNAS for a long time so I was hoping to just grab a different thumb drive, install the latest version and start over with the machine altogether (instead of trying to fix this one). I don't mind re-doing the configuration if I have to - I just want to be able to easily import the data volumes from the old server. So is this possible? If I just stick a different thumb drive in the back with the latest version, will it recognize the volumes on the RAID? Or do I have to actually have another 2 HDDs, create a new pool and then import the old volumes to them?
Alternatively, if anyone understands the greek on this screen, I'm open to suggestions on how to fix the current configuration. I've done some research and tried to go in a add a line to the \boot\loader.conf that said something like kmem_size_scale=2 or something like that, but when I tried to exit the editor, it wouldn't save the changes. So I'd need some help figuring out how to edit any config files as the root user.
Can anyone help me out here? Thank you so much!
(I tried booting several times with all 4 sticks of RAM out one at a time in case it was a RAM problem)
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