DAXQ
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I have an iXsystems FreeNAS-Mini-3.0-E+ running TureNAS 12.0-U2.1 Core that has been stuck @ 12.0-U2.1 for some time now (I tried updating it via normal means, but it refused to do the install during reboot and reverted back to 12.0-U2. Recommendations where to just backup the config, reinstall a current OS version, and restore the config). The last time I was able to get to time to try and reinstall the OS - I had a very difficult time getting this hardware to boot off a USB stick I had set up. So much trouble that I eventually stopped trying to install the new OS and left it at 12.0. I have another opportunity to get this system up to date and wondered if anyone had any suggestions to getting it to boot off a USB install stick like the old Mini's? I created a new USB boot disk (13.0-U5), took it home and moved my home system (an older iXsystems FREENASMINI-8TB-IXN) from a test Scale system back to Core to try out and verify the media - it worked fine (as expected anyway on my older iXsystem mini). These newer Mini's seem to be doing something different to get it to boot off the USB and any suggestions or steps would be greatly appreciated. I will have physical access to box and can get into the management interface if needed (never make use of this interface and not very familiar with it). Aside from being out of date - it has also lost one of its mirrored boot drives, so I plan to take it down and correctly label all the drives externally, replace the failed boot mirror drive (with a new Supermicro SSD-DM032-SMCMVN1 32GB SATA DOM) and put a fresh install of 13.0-u5 if I can get it to boot off the USB stick! So any steps or suggestions getting it to boot off the USB Stick would be greatly appreciated! I use these boxes solely as means for mass storage for my users doing simple SMB shares - nothing fancy or complicated and they have worked fantastically up to now.