Strange Bootproblem with Asus H87M-PLUS

[Mr. Gosh]

Hey Guys,

after many years of FreeNAS Storage Server Administration I have a bigger Problem with a new Box for the first time.

As I read in the Forums there should't be a big Problem with UEFI Boards, so I bought a Asus H87M-Plus for my Customer.

The Plan was to use a small SSD for the Main System.
But after Installing on there it won't boot.

After the Screen:

Code:

F1 FreeBSD
F2 FreeBSD
 
F6 PXE
Boot: ########

are just coming more and more "#" in there - ca. 1 per second.

So second try - Install to USB Stick.

There It Boots but hangs on the following error:

Code:

ugen0.2: <Unknown> at usbus0 (disconnected)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a [ro]...
mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a
Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a failed with error 19.
 
Loader variables:
  vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a
  vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro
 
Manual root......blablabla....
mountroot>

so this happens either on usb3 port and on usb2 port


so ot looks like on the usb stikc the loader works - and on the ssd it doesn't but on the usb stick the root filesystem couldn't be mounted.

So i tried what happens if both are connected and I select "F5 Drive 1" to boot the ssd from usb stick... that works - but as it is not really a solution I stopped testing where the changes than get stored - if they really land on the ssd as i suspect, or wherever.....

I tired all this with FreeNAS 9.1.1 and with the newest nightly build (which was called beta 3 i think).

Do you have any suggestions?
I tried any combination out of compatibility modes in the uefi firmware settings...

Thanks for the hints...

Mr.Gosh

 

[DrKK]

the problem, more than likely, and as shown on at least 12 other posts in this forum, is a USB3.0 incompatibility. Try to disable USB 3.0, and/or XHCI in the BIOS.

 

[Mr. Gosh]

i'll try this - strange i didn't find something pointing on this before posting - sorry!
I'll report about that...

 

[Mr. Gosh]

Oh, and this can't be the Problem for the OnBoard Sata atached SSD that is not installed via USB - right?
But I'll test the USB thing when I'm at work...

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Done - it now boots from the USB Stick when it is connected to one of the USB2 Ports.
I also deactivated xHCI Support as you suggested.
It still doesn't recognize the Network Port - but I'll research on that later...
What is really strange is that it doesn't boot from the internal SATA SSD - no matter if it is in compatibility or native UEFI mode...

Any suggestions about that...?