GreyBushHunter
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- May 20, 2016
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Hello all and thanks for taking the time to help me out. I'm brand new here and this is my first post so if it's in the wrong place please forgive me as I am very frustrated and am eager for solutions. Anyways my problem is as follows:
I have a Dell xps 435mt with 6gb RAM (I know I'm 2 shy of the recommended) with a i7920 in it. I put freenas on a 16gb USB with Rufus portable. Yesterday when I did this the Dell could see the USB and would boot to it but it would give me an error saying it couldn't remount the root. I think I read somewhere about formatting it with active@ diskkill so that's what I did. Now when I put the USB with freenas on it in the Dell it can see the USB but it gives me a black screen saying "no diagnostic utility partition identified; press any key to reboot..."
So I thought it was the USB so I tried installing freenas using a different computer... Mounted freenas ISO to a 32gb USB using Rufus plugged that USB into my everyday desktop and installed it to the 16gb USB drive. It worked like a charm no remount issues... I think it took 10 to 15 min total to install. The only problem is the Dell just won't boot freenas... Aaaaarrrrrrggggg
Someone please help this freenas noob out. Idk if I gave enough info or what so please let me know what I can do to help you help me.
Thanks for having me guys!
I have a Dell xps 435mt with 6gb RAM (I know I'm 2 shy of the recommended) with a i7920 in it. I put freenas on a 16gb USB with Rufus portable. Yesterday when I did this the Dell could see the USB and would boot to it but it would give me an error saying it couldn't remount the root. I think I read somewhere about formatting it with active@ diskkill so that's what I did. Now when I put the USB with freenas on it in the Dell it can see the USB but it gives me a black screen saying "no diagnostic utility partition identified; press any key to reboot..."
So I thought it was the USB so I tried installing freenas using a different computer... Mounted freenas ISO to a 32gb USB using Rufus plugged that USB into my everyday desktop and installed it to the 16gb USB drive. It worked like a charm no remount issues... I think it took 10 to 15 min total to install. The only problem is the Dell just won't boot freenas... Aaaaarrrrrrggggg
Someone please help this freenas noob out. Idk if I gave enough info or what so please let me know what I can do to help you help me.
Thanks for having me guys!