Chad Brown
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So I have recently built myself a VMWare ESXi Server (ESXi v6.5) and it has been working flawlessly for a few weeks, but the day before yesterday I upgraded from FreeNAS 9.10 to FreeNAS 11-RC3
For some reason it refuses to boot past the Welcome to Grub message but only on the second boot.
The sequence of events is as follows:
First - Upgrade.
1.) From within the UI I changed my train to 11-RC3
2.) The upgrade procedure ran, and the system rebooted.
4.) The next day the VM server went through it's weekly maintenance cycle shutting down each VM and backing up the images to an external source.
5.) The server booted back up, and I found it stuck on the "Welcome to Grub!" message after that.
I have tried a few suggestions for updating the VMs BIOS (Turning off floppy drives, changing boot settings to make sure the hard drive is first.)
Second - Manual Upgrade.
1.) I downloaded the FreeNAS 11-RC3 ISO image.
2.) I booted from the ISO image and did a manual upgrade.
3.) Rebooting the server it booted up just fine, and was running without issue.
4.) Reboot the server after uploading the backup of my configuration.
5.) The server stopped at the "Welcome to Grub!" message.
It doesn't have any errors or anything I can find, and previous to v11-RC3 it would boot just fine. If I leave it sitting on the "Welcome to Grub!" message for a few minutes (about 5) it will go into a boot loop where it reboots over and over and over again.
Third - Clean install
1.) Deleting the VM I went for a clean install of the FreeNAS 11-RC3 on clean hard drives without any prior setup.
2.) Installed the FreeNAS system.
3.) Reboot and the system boots up just fine.
4.) Reboot and it does the same thing. Stopping on the Welcome to Grub! message and going into a boot loop.
System Configuration
VMWare ESXi v6.5 (Build 5310538)
Hardware
- Motherboard: SuperMicro - H8SGL
- CPU: AMD Operton(tm) Processor 6376
- RAM: 128 GB (DDR3 Registered ECC)
- Network: 2 Port Intel 82571EB NIC
- HD: SanDisk 120GB SSD
VM Configuration
- RAM: 64 GB
- CPU: 6 Cores
- HDs: 2 x 8GB VM Drives
I've researched as much as I can, but none of the solutions that are out there have proved to be successful.
Thanks in advance!
For some reason it refuses to boot past the Welcome to Grub message but only on the second boot.
The sequence of events is as follows:
First - Upgrade.
1.) From within the UI I changed my train to 11-RC3
2.) The upgrade procedure ran, and the system rebooted.
4.) The next day the VM server went through it's weekly maintenance cycle shutting down each VM and backing up the images to an external source.
5.) The server booted back up, and I found it stuck on the "Welcome to Grub!" message after that.
I have tried a few suggestions for updating the VMs BIOS (Turning off floppy drives, changing boot settings to make sure the hard drive is first.)
Second - Manual Upgrade.
1.) I downloaded the FreeNAS 11-RC3 ISO image.
2.) I booted from the ISO image and did a manual upgrade.
3.) Rebooting the server it booted up just fine, and was running without issue.
4.) Reboot the server after uploading the backup of my configuration.
5.) The server stopped at the "Welcome to Grub!" message.
It doesn't have any errors or anything I can find, and previous to v11-RC3 it would boot just fine. If I leave it sitting on the "Welcome to Grub!" message for a few minutes (about 5) it will go into a boot loop where it reboots over and over and over again.
Third - Clean install
1.) Deleting the VM I went for a clean install of the FreeNAS 11-RC3 on clean hard drives without any prior setup.
2.) Installed the FreeNAS system.
3.) Reboot and the system boots up just fine.
4.) Reboot and it does the same thing. Stopping on the Welcome to Grub! message and going into a boot loop.
System Configuration
VMWare ESXi v6.5 (Build 5310538)
Hardware
- Motherboard: SuperMicro - H8SGL
- CPU: AMD Operton(tm) Processor 6376
- RAM: 128 GB (DDR3 Registered ECC)
- Network: 2 Port Intel 82571EB NIC
- HD: SanDisk 120GB SSD
VM Configuration
- RAM: 64 GB
- CPU: 6 Cores
- HDs: 2 x 8GB VM Drives
I've researched as much as I can, but none of the solutions that are out there have proved to be successful.
Thanks in advance!