Stuck in Reboot Loop

[rhunton]

Evening, I'm after some help please.

I decided I needed to upgrade my NAS at the weekend to 9.10 from a pre 9.3

I logged into the NAS and completed the firmware upgrade to v9.3 and this completed fine.

I then upgraded my ZFS pool using the GUI and decided I may as well upgrade to 9.10 while feeling confident.

I changed the train to 9.10 and applied all the updates but now when the server is booting I keep getting a message of:
Generating grub configuration file...
done
Shutdown NOW!
shutdown: [pid 8887]

System shutdown time has arrived.

The server reboots and then just repeats again..
I can get into my FreeNAS but need to be in front of it and send a CTRL+C to stop it generating the Grub config file.

Anyone know how I can resolve this?
Thanks in advance.
Rob

 

[Ericloewe]

In the GRUB menu, choose an older boot environment, then try the update again. Today's update might help.

 

[Alex.G]

I'm having the exact same issue. After 'Generating GRUB configuration file' the system just reboots straight away and gets stuck in this reboot loop.

This was after performing a system update to the very latest 9.10.1-U2 just 2 days ago.

 

[splitice]

I too can confirm this issue after an upgrade to 9.10.1-U2

 

[Ericloewe]

Then file bug reports.

 

[Guille]

Hi, have anyone resolved this? It happens to me intermitently. I have to reboot it several times in order to keep it running. When it runs, everything is fine.

Thanks

 

[rhunton]

Hi Guille,
I found my issue was down to ram not getting detected.

The server would reboot but only with 8gb of 16gb, it would then generate a grub configuration file and reboot, on reboot it would find 16gb and again build a grub config and reboot again and lose 8gb and it would go around in circles like that.

I found hitting ctrl + c when it got to generating the file got me into the server.

In the end i moved my ram over into a HP N54L server from the N40L I was running and touch wood never had an issue since.

Hope that's of some use.

Rob

 

[Guille]

Thank you Rob.

It may have something to do with memory. This problem started when I switched a memory module (2GB to 4GB).

Now it seems to be stable.

Won't fiddle with it much more than this. Waiting for 10.0...