Reboot fail

[n9iz]

I'm new to this and have FreeNAS up and running on an old desktop. It's a little dated with an Intel Pentium 1.6 dual core and only 2GB memory. I decided to load the 32-bit version. All is fine and running via my 4GB memory stick and two old SATA HDDs. I can read from them and write to them. Sharing is working as I can access them from Win explorer. However, if I chose to reboot the system the computer hangs up and won't boot or go to the POST screen, or anything. It just brings up the screen with the F2 for setup and F10 for boot options but choosing either of these options doesn't do anything...machine just sits there doing nothing. I can get around this by unplugging both HDDs and restarting system. Then I hit F10 as soon as the screen comes up. I plug in both HDDs and exit the boot manager and FreeNAS starts right up. Maybe it's my old machine with old BIOS or something. It definitely has something to do with the HDDs, almost like it's not recognizing them as drives or something. I thought maybe it was because I chose the set them up as ZFS volumes so I deleted them and set them up as UFS. Still no chages so I'll just leave them as is for now and hope the power doesn't go out while I'm not around. Let me stress that this is just for fun and learning on my part. This NAS system is in no way critical to my home network. I'm only saving additional sytem backups to it on one HDD and downloaded video podcasts I like to view to the other. This way it keeps them from cluttering up my desktop and making my regular data backups not so huge. I'm open to any thoughts or suggestions on how to get this to reboot in an easier fashion. Regards.

Jeff

 

[MickeyR]

I have the same exact problem. where you able to figure anything out yet?

 

[gpsguy]

If you'd read the forum guidelines and rules, before posting your messages, you'd probably elicit a response.

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[OCMaximus]

I suggest you place most of that information in your sig like I did today ;)

 

[MickeyR]

Hello N9iz I am about as new to freenas as a noob can be. I have exactly the same issue as you do. I have however discovered it that the issue is the volume and not the hard drive. If I do not set up a volume on my hard drive I can reboot the system as many times as I wish However after installing a volume when I reboot the computer tells me it cannot find a boot disk After unplugging my hard drives and rebooting the system I then plugged my hard drives back in and remove the volume Reboot the system and it reboots perfectly. I have placed my system info in my signature as I am new I hope this works if it does not I apologize in advance

 

[n9iz]

I'm very new to this stuff, too. I haven't found the solution yet, but haven't really been messing with it. Since I can get it to run I just let it go. Mapped network drives to it and save backups to one and media files to another. With the comuter off I unplug both SATA plugs from the mobo. I restart the computer and as soon as the splash screen comes up hit F10. This brings me to a boot manager screen. Then I can plug them back in and hit F4 to exit the screen. It boots right up as I'd expect it to after that. If I don't unplug the drives it just hangs forever and never boots. It's not an elegant solution but I'm too busy to mess with it right now. My two boys are both in Cub Scouts, my wife and I are leaders, too. Then add in 4H and some sports, and I work nights...translates into not enough time. Since it's working at a minimal level I just let it go. I never shut it off unless I have. Sorry I can't be of much help.

Jeff

 

[MickeyR]

Any help would be greatly appreciated . Thank you

 

[gpsguy]

Folks, if you want help in the future, please include all the requested information. Even, after I quoted the rules, "FreeNAS version and platform (32 or 64 bit)", you still don't think it's necessary to provide all the information.

Nonetheless, I'll be a nice guy and try to help.

Your boot issues can probably be fixed by adjusting the boot order in the BIOS. More than likely, you have it set to something like Hard disk, CD-Rom, USB. USB needs to be first in the order.

 

[MickeyR]

:o Beginners mistakes but I am capable of learning even at my age. lol My bios does not have the usb option only removable drive which I had set first but it wouldn't install. After setting the bios to boot from hard drive it installed and booted of the usb no problem. Even with the drives installed it will boot every time but as soon as I give the hard drives any type of volume The pc won't boot. Thanks for your help gpsguy

 

[ProtoSD]

You can also try setting kern.cam.boot_delay 10000

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Tunables

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Sysctls

 

[MickeyR]

Hello Jeff
Just wanted to let you know I was going to follow ProtoSD's Advice So I started to doublecheck everything I have done in the past. I deleted all of the volumes And then did a quick drive a white in the view disks tab I disconnected all of the hard drives and then rebooted the system and check to make sure I was current on my bios, And I was. But just as I was getting to restart the machine I had a brainstorm My bios was still set up for the windows gaming machine So I reset my files to default setting Reboot my system and had a floppy a drive fault. Clearly that was because I don't have a floppy and the machine so I went back into the bios and turned it off. I rebooted the PC again With no problems Then from my GUI I shut the system down reconnected all the drives and rebooted again. Now I have created my volumes and users and the system reboots flawlessly I hope that this fixes your issues also. I would like to thank gpsguy and PtotoSD FOR YOUR TIME AND ASSISTANCE

 

[gpsguy]

I'm glad to hear that you've got the boot problem solved. Hopefully Jeff can get his working too.

 

[MickeyR]

Hello Jeff I just wanted to let you know that I found the problem I had to go into my bios and change The hard drive start preference Simply make sure that your USB key as set as the first hard drive to boot from I hope this works for you also