bobfandango
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- Feb 10, 2012
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I have a weird situation that I just cannot figure out. It's really strange...
I recently got around to switching to the latest version of TrueNAS. As I always have done, I did NOT upgrade the server. I burned install media to a USB drive, made a fresh install, and then imported my zpool. It was actually the smoothest migration I've had to date. The only thing I had to do was create users and groups with the appropriate IDs, and everything just plain worked. Except for one thing...
The machine absolutely will not boot without a monitor attached (which is simple and easy to say, but do you have any idea how long it took to figure that out since it always worked just fine before??? grrrrrrr). I've been running Freenas since 9.x first on a Microserver, and now on a Proliant ML10 gen9. These machines have *always* been run headless, just sitting in a closet.
The timestamps for entries in /var/log/console.log show that exactly nothing is logged without the monitor attached. Seems the machine doesn't make it past the bootloader?
There is no BIOS setting for 'stop on error' or the like, and in any event, the BIOS settings are EXACTLY the same as they were when running headless under Freenas 11.
So, there is *something* with either TrueNAS or FreeBSD 12 that breaks the headless boot on this machine (or, there is something about my old config that screws up headless... i.e., though this is not an upgraded server, it isn't exactly a virgin build either).
I've googled and searched and I cannot find anything that explains this. I'm on the verge of getting an active displayport dongle, but I just shouldn't have to do that...
Any ideas?
I recently got around to switching to the latest version of TrueNAS. As I always have done, I did NOT upgrade the server. I burned install media to a USB drive, made a fresh install, and then imported my zpool. It was actually the smoothest migration I've had to date. The only thing I had to do was create users and groups with the appropriate IDs, and everything just plain worked. Except for one thing...
The machine absolutely will not boot without a monitor attached (which is simple and easy to say, but do you have any idea how long it took to figure that out since it always worked just fine before??? grrrrrrr). I've been running Freenas since 9.x first on a Microserver, and now on a Proliant ML10 gen9. These machines have *always* been run headless, just sitting in a closet.
The timestamps for entries in /var/log/console.log show that exactly nothing is logged without the monitor attached. Seems the machine doesn't make it past the bootloader?
There is no BIOS setting for 'stop on error' or the like, and in any event, the BIOS settings are EXACTLY the same as they were when running headless under Freenas 11.
So, there is *something* with either TrueNAS or FreeBSD 12 that breaks the headless boot on this machine (or, there is something about my old config that screws up headless... i.e., though this is not an upgraded server, it isn't exactly a virgin build either).
I've googled and searched and I cannot find anything that explains this. I'm on the verge of getting an active displayport dongle, but I just shouldn't have to do that...
Any ideas?
