My FreeNAS never reboots cleanly ...

[longcanadianwinter]

I have been running FreeNAS successfully for a couple of months now but one thing has always been a problem. The system never seems to shut down cleanly. I will reboot either from the machine itself or through the GUI and after several minutes find that it is stuck and have to do a hard boot instead. Any ideas on why this could be happening? Obviously I realize this could be creating a number of problems elsewhere in the system.
Thanks in advance

 

[TheSmoker]

Please post your hardware info. At first sight it might be a non standard acpi inplementation on your bios/mobo.
Potentially a bios update might fix your problem.

 

[longcanadianwinter]

Hi Smoker, it's actually in my signature unless there was something else you needed? Thanks for the reply.

 

[TheSmoker]

Really sorry. I am using tapatalk and it does not show signatures. :(

 

[longcanadianwinter]

No problem! Here's my hardware FreeNAS-9.2.1.5-RELEASE-x64 | Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz | 8GB Kingston PC 5300 DDR2 | 2 * SeaGate 4TB NAS hard drives | Intel Gigabyte NIC
I do have the latest BIOS installed but as you can see it's an older system. One really weird thing I am also trying to fix is that I can not get in to the BIOS to do a change like change the boot order. I know you are supposed to be able to hit F2 or F12 or different combinations but ever since installing FreeNAS that option is not available for me. Everytime I reboot I have to run to the machine and interrupt the boot process manually ... kind of a drag. Anyway ...

 

[warri]

Your signature does not state the mainboard model. Looking for a BIOS update is the next step I would suggest as well.

EDIT: Ok, no BIOS update available. Then you might want to Google for the mainboard model and problems in FreeBSD, maybe you can find a solution.

 

[longcanadianwinter]

Thanks Warri, always appreciate people taking the time to respond. I did do a bunch of research on this when I first installed FreeNAS but being an older system most was pretty outdated. Not too many folks using a system like this for FreeNAS (I plan on buying something newer this year). Anyway, I haven't had to restart the server in a couple of months so mostly forgot about it until upgrading to 9.2.1.5 today. I'll research again and post back if I can narrow down the issue further. Thanks again.

 

[krikboh]

I can't find a listing of the chipset in that system and HP only provides Vista drivers. What you are seeing may be the best you can get with FreeBSD/FreeNAS. I hope you realize the dangers of using non-ECC RAM.

 

[TheSmoker]

Do me a favor. Go into bios and disable everything not necessary. Audio, onboard network if you do not use it, switch SATA ports to AHCI, disable APM, disable HPET. Afterwards test if it's going to reboot cleanly. As an alternative try to boot FN without ACPI at FN boot prompt.