Making a boot drive just stops...

[Sheldon Robinson]

My system: In the beginning
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
AMD fx4100
16gb G Skill ddr3
2 Western Digital 1tb 7200rpm HDD
Kingston 64GB USB Data Traveler
CD ROM drive
Corsair CX430 PSU
Cooler Master HAF912 case

The computer gets to:
daO destroyed
daO created
daOp1 added
daOp2 added
active set on daO
Installing base-os (1 of 4)
.

Does this part take a looong time, or what am I doing wrong?

 

[Sheldon Robinson]

This is an update to this post. Problem solved! After reading most all of the forums dealing with my particular problem, and half of a frustrating day. I decided to try a normal HDD as a boot drive, out of curiosity. This worked straight away. It seems that my problem was both of the Kingston thumb drives, they did not work. To say that using thumb drives might be problematic, is an understatement. I will be buying an SSD for the boot drive straight away. Thank you for the forums!

 

[oggydoggy]

was the usb traveler plugged into a usb2 socket?
I ask because I have had loads of issues trying to rebuild a Truenas once the pen drive failed this last week. I followed the new instructions and changed to a ssd and this didn't help.
Four days later I figure out that a usb3 pen drive or usb3 adapter for an ssd plugged into the internal usb2 on my HP microserver gen8 can no longer be written to by Truenas. Well certainly directories created during the first boot and stopped from being allowed to write which than stops the pool being formed.
By chance I dug out a very old usb2 only sata drive caddy and it worked first time with the ssd in it.

I had tried a spare mini usb3 which was the same as the failed one and it booted but halted on the pool not working. Further up the load I could see it was trying to write a directory to the boot drive but was not being allowed. This was the same type in use on this microserver for several years with Freenas on. A few months on truenas and its dead.

I have ordered some parts and will attempt to mount the ssd in where the dvd should go using the sata port on the motherboard.. If it works I'll do the other 2 microservers too.

Might be a good idea to drop usb drives completely for truenas, if possible.