Acer Aspire x1430
8GB RAM
32GB USB boot drive
FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201509022158.iso
The installer ran fine from USB, installed to the boot drive without error. At the Acer's boot device selection menu the USB drive shows up as a EFI boot device and is the only option. But after selecting this device, I see "ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed."
I think the problem is that the Acer sees the boot disk as an EFI device, and there doesn't appear to be any way to disable EFI boot from the BIOS.
Other non-EFI USB sticks boot fine. In fact, I can use dd to write the installer image to the same USB stick and the Acer boots the installer fine. For some reason this computer is ok with the installer, but not with a full FreeNAS install on the same USB stick.
Can anybody suggest a reason that the Acer sees the boot stick as an EFI device, and is there any trick to force it to try a legacy boot of the USB drive?
edit: if I force the BIOS to force floppy emulation on USB devices, I get a GRUB prompt. Better than nothing, but I'm not sure where to go from here.
8GB RAM
32GB USB boot drive
FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201509022158.iso
The installer ran fine from USB, installed to the boot drive without error. At the Acer's boot device selection menu the USB drive shows up as a EFI boot device and is the only option. But after selecting this device, I see "ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed."
I think the problem is that the Acer sees the boot disk as an EFI device, and there doesn't appear to be any way to disable EFI boot from the BIOS.
Other non-EFI USB sticks boot fine. In fact, I can use dd to write the installer image to the same USB stick and the Acer boots the installer fine. For some reason this computer is ok with the installer, but not with a full FreeNAS install on the same USB stick.
Can anybody suggest a reason that the Acer sees the boot stick as an EFI device, and is there any trick to force it to try a legacy boot of the USB drive?
edit: if I force the BIOS to force floppy emulation on USB devices, I get a GRUB prompt. Better than nothing, but I'm not sure where to go from here.
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