Onboard NIC failed

[The Shim]

Recently my onboard NIC failed on my FREENAS box. I am on 9.1
I do have another NIC installed on the mobo, but have no idea how to configure it.
I also want to upgrade to FreenNas 9.2
If I reinstall the OS will I lose all my media?

 

[HoneyBadger]

You should be able to use the console to chose "configure network interfaces" - record the configuration of the first one manually, then disable it and configure the second interface to be identical.

Reinstalling FreeNAS won't necessarily cause you to lose your media but you'll have to re-import your pool. Why not sort out the network issue and then just do an upgrade via the GUI?

 

[The Shim]

I havent been able to determine what all the settings on the old nic were, besides the IP, but in the configuration of the console, there are multiple entities listed, none of which I recognize as being a a NIC. At the moment I have no access to the gui, only the console, and the text is so large on it that I am not able to see more than a few lines of the last output. After the initial start up, the system goes into a failure, again I dont know what the failure is because of the text size problem. That is why I was thinking of just doing a fresh install, but I dont want to re-import all my media, that took weeks..

 

[HoneyBadger]

At the moment I have no access to the gui, only the console, and the text is so large on it that I am not able to see more than a few lines of the last output. After the initial start up, the system goes into a failure, again I dont know what the failure is because of the text size problem.

I think you're having much more than just a NIC problem here if you can't actually see the console at all. Post your system specs (system model, motherboard, chip, RAM amount/type/ECC or not) please.

If you do a fresh install or reinstall of 9.1, don't wipe your disks - instead, choose to import them in the ZFS volume manager from the GUI (Storage -> Import Volume or Auto Import Volume) and you should retain all of your data, assuming that the pool hasn't been corrupted from these "failures."

 

[The Shim]

I will be able to send complete specs later, its old hardware, only 4gb ram, no ZFS support. I will say it worked perfectly for months, then the failure occurred. When i get home from work I will send complete specs.

Thanks!

 

[The Shim]

The mobo is an Asus A8n5X w AMD Athlon 64 processor ( Socket 939 ) 4GB DDR Ram. I dont remember exactly what kind, I do know that they are all matching

 

[HoneyBadger]

Honestly it sounds like a hardware failure of one of the main components (CPU/MBD/RAM) if it's failing that quickly after boot.

 

[jgreco]

Power supply.

 

[The Shim]

Definitely not the Power supply. I am going to attempt to reinstall the OS with the new NIC. As far as I can tell, that is the ONLY failure. I can interact with the console just fine.

 

[The Shim]

Problem SOLVED! Re-Install was easy. Thank you HoneyBadger for the info to import the volumes.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Problem SOLVED! Re-Install was easy. Thank you HoneyBadger for the info to import the volumes.

Glad to hear everything's repaired! That "new NIC" is an Intel, right? ;)