My freenas installed on a USB drive but my PC will not able to boot from USB.

[pxtmission]

Please help


I'm new to freenas. I have installed freenas on a 16G Kingston USB and everything seem to run great on the installation part. But I having an issue is that after removed all the disc and start up my PC but it will not able to recognize my USB to start up the server. I have tried on another PC but with the same result. I have change the boot up priority in the BIOS already but nothing seem to work. Can someone help me out and give me some hint how start it up.

Thanks

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[Mati2580]

first check if BIOS was setup corectly, I mean the USB should be setup as HDD drive.
In boot device priority you should see your USB.
Boot from USB is not setup as default I geuss.

 

[snapmick]

Boot Menu key

Some systemboards allow to access a boot menu without changing the BIOS Boot Order. For example, Asus P67 boards use the F8 key to open a seperate boot menu without BIOS modification. From there, use the arrow keys to highlight USB and press ENTER. Read The Friendly Manual for your particular motherboard.
Best of luck!
snapmick

Please help


I'm new to freenas. I have installed freenas on a 16G Kingston USB and everything seem to run great on the installation part. But I having an issue is that after removed all the disc and start up my PC but it will not able to recognize my USB to start up the server. I have tried on another PC but with the same result. I have change the boot up priority in the BIOS already but nothing seem to work. Can someone help me out and give me some hint how start it up.

Thanks

pxtmission@yahoo.com

 

[NiteByte]

I am having the same issue. after downloading and extracting to a file I burned the image to my usb stick.. shoved it in.. turned it on.. configured bios to boot from removable media and it hangs for a moment then goes right to boot seoection 2.. which is the hdd.. I have burned the img 3 times successfully. I am using linux mint and in there using the imagewriter to write to usb. maybe I really need to burn a dvd???

 

[gpsguy]

Please use the documented procedure for burning the image file.

If that doesn't work for you, go the DVD route.

I am using linux mint and in there using the imagewriter to write to usb.

 

[survive]

Hi NiteByte,

Personally I swear by the CD install route.....there's no worse way to start out with a new project than spending hours trying to figure out why the darn thing won't boot.

If you are using the latest 9.2.0 beta keep in mind the build script apparently included a bunch of stuff it shouldn't have, so the size is much bigger than it should be. I would expect that will be corrected & a new install .iso released shortly.

One trick I use now is I do CD installs via a VMware player VM. I just make a FreeBSD VM with a gig of memory & a CD drive, mount the .iso to it & boot from that then install to a USB key passed through from the host to the VM. Doing it this way installs even faster than an old-school CD install. When the CD install completes just shutdown the VM & move the key over to your "real" FreeNAS box.....the install doesn't do any configuration at install time so there's no issues moving a fresh key between systems.

-Will