Power supply replace now wont boot to Truenas

[blueI5land]

So my power supply died and I replaced it on my truenas machine

Had trouble diagnosing but one of my internal MB cables was the culprit and before I figured out it was the cable, I tried everything else including resetting the CMOS.

Keep in mind the system was working perfectly fine, I had it set up as a network drive and everything was great.

So now I'm trying to get truenas to boot but it won't seem to boot. So far here's what I've done:


I have 4, two terabyte SSD discs and one SSD boot disk.

1. I tried of course in the BIOS to put the boot disk first in line to boot and it goes through as though freenas is starting, spits out few lines of code but then it stops abruptly after about 3 seconds and says "reboot and select proper boot device insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key".

2. I tried adjusting some of the BIOS settings between UEFI and Legacy, but I'm getting the same problem.


Scratching my head at this point because truenas seems to want to load, but it blinks too fast on the screen for me to read what errors I'm getting.

Maybe there's something I'm just not doing correctly with the boot order? Just trying to think outside the box maybe there's something I don't understand. but I'm into this about an hour and figured I'd throw this out on the forum.

MB is a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH (rev. 1.0) updated to latest.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Whattteva]

Scratching my head at this point because truenas seems to want to load, but it blinks too fast on the screen for me to read what errors I'm getting.

"Blinks too fast" sounds like it is rebooting right as it starts displaying console messages. Sounds to me like you have a stability problem. Likely some hardware issue and is totally unrelated to TrueNAS itself.

 

[blueI5land]

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[Whattteva]

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[blueI5land]

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[Alecmascot]

R-install to your boot drive and restore your saved config.

 

[blueI5land]

dont want to do that. everything was working fine

i dont have any saved config. you mean in truenas? or in my BIOS?

 

[blueI5land]

well, I guess I have no other options, do i?

 

[Alecmascot]

Bring the server up after the re-install.
Import the pool and the config may be found there.
Search the forum for "recover config" for details.
Maybe someone who has done this will be along soon.....

 

[blueI5land]

Thanks. Seems my only option now.

I am not a network admin...I have truenas and dont really require it, I just set it up thinking it would be the easiest way to have smarter access to backups than a drive.

Anyone want to walk me through this step by step?

Its been a while since I installed Truenas I am relearning.

1. Download Truenas .iso
2. need help starting here : lol

 

[Alecmascot]

burn the iso to the install media (stick)
Follow the documentation......

 

[Whattteva]

1. Download Truenas .iso
2. need help starting here : lol

3. Burn it to a CD or a USB stick with either Balena Etcher or Rufus
4. Boot from that (you may have to modify your BIOS boot order).
5. Follow on-screen instructions.
6. Profit.

 

[LarsR]

1. Download Rufus to burn the .iso to an usb stick
2. Stick the usb stick in your nas and boot from it into the installer.
3. Follow the install wizard
4. When prompted to, reboot the nas and remove the install usb
5. Wait for the nas to boot and look at the screen which ip your nas got from your dhcp server
6. Access the webui and import your pool

thats pretty much it

 

[blueI5land]

Excellent.

Will get started.

 

[blueI5land]

Does the pool have GELI Encryption from FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 or earlier?

i dont remember i think i set up truenas about 8-12 months ago originally

 

[blueI5land]

i went with no....

i have my pools back.

now mapping the network drive....

THIS PC>
MAP NETWORK DRIVE>

What exactly do I put here?

 

[Whattteva]

\\<your_truenas_ip_or_local_DNS_name>\<share_name>

 

[blueI5land]

ok im accessing but stuck on password.

is there a default password?

 

[Whattteva]

It's the same username/password you use for your TrueNAS account.

 

[blueI5land]

ok well i did a reinstall, so is there a default? I have my old Usernams and passwords written down. they are not working.