Stuck on "loading kernel modules"...

[noman]

Hello,

First post here.

I built a new FreeNAS box yesterday and having issues with booting up.

My Specs:

* CPU: Intel G3930 Kaby Lake Processor
* RAM: 8GB Corsair LPX
* Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H270N-WiFi
* 3x3TiB WD Red
* 1x60GB Intel SSD
* Patriot USB 3.0 installation drive

FreeNAS version: 9.10

While the installation goes well, when booting from USB drive, the boot sequence hangs at:

`Loading kernel modules…`

### Other Info
Interestingly, the FreeNAS version 10, beta 2 boots up just fine. However there are other issues with it, such as creation of a dataset (permissions error).

My suspicion is that the H270 chipset isn't supported yet... but since I can boot version 10 just fine, I am not sure.

I would like to use the FreeNAS 9. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[John Dray]

I have the same problem.

I pressed control C, then again when it stuck at loading mdnsd. That allowed me to get into the shell (option 9).

I then tried kldload to find out which of the kernel modules had not loaded.
dtraceall and ipmi reported that they were already loaded.

When I tried kldload hwpmc, I got an error

pmc: Unknown Intel CPU.
hwpmc: SOFT/16/64/0x67<INT,USR,SYS,REA,WRI>

I also tried loading t3_tom and t4_tom - they both loaded

I'm guessing this means that Kaby Lake isn't supported yet... any help???

 

[SweetAndLow]

It could be a number of things, the audio features, wifi features or kaby lake.

I suspect since kaby lake and sky lake are similar the it might not be the CPUs fault. If you used a good motherboard it would probably work.

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[noman]

Thank you John for pitching in.

SweetAndLow, thank you for your reply... but like I've mentioned earlier, the FreeNAS v10 is booting up just fine. The permission error seems to be a regression (based on posts on this forum). I suspect there is going to be an update to address v10 permissions issue this week.

H/Z270 are mainstream chipsets... I am sure they are going to be supported.

At the moment, it seems to be a Kaby Lake issue... I am still trying to research and troubleshoot the installation. No luck yet.

 

[gpsguy]

Since the developers don't frequent the forums, open a ticket on: https://bugs.freenas.org/projects/freenas and post the issue # here.

At the moment, it seems to be a Kaby Lake issue... I am still trying to research and troubleshoot the installation.

 

[noman]

Just did. Thank you.

 

[gpsguy]

Please post the issue # here, so if others with Kaby Lake systems stumble across this thread, they can check the progress. Thanks!

 

[noman]

Issue #20656.

 

[BrentR]

I have loaded version 9.10 twice everything install great when I reboot it hangs at reloading modules (screen shot below) When I load the version 10 Beta 2 everything seems to work perfectly for what I can see. I am new to FreeNas. I like the Version 10 but I don't want to run something that says not stable and not for production machines.

ASRock H270M-ITX/ac
Intel I3 7100 LGA 1151
16 GB DDR4

 

[kybandy]

I'm having the same issue with these specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i5 6500 3.20 GHz Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor, Socket LGA 1151, 6MB Cache BX80662I56500
• Motherboard: GIGABYTE LGA1151 Intel H110 Micro ATX DDR4 Motherboard GA-H110M-A
• RAM: Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4-2133 MT/s (PC4-17000) CL15 SR x8 Unbuffered DIMM Desktop Memory CT2K4G4DFS8213/CT2C4G4DFS8213
• Data drive (x2 for now, will add 2 more later): WD Blue 2TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD20EZRZ
• Boot drive (x2): SanDisk Ultra CZ48 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Any ideas?

 

[SweetAndLow]

I'm having the same issue with these specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i5 6500 3.20 GHz Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor, Socket LGA 1151, 6MB Cache BX80662I56500
• Motherboard: GIGABYTE LGA1151 Intel H110 Micro ATX DDR4 Motherboard GA-H110M-A
• RAM: Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4-2133 MT/s (PC4-17000) CL15 SR x8 Unbuffered DIMM Desktop Memory CT2K4G4DFS8213/CT2C4G4DFS8213
• Data drive (x2 for now, will add 2 more later): WD Blue 2TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD20EZRZ
• Boot drive (x2): SanDisk Ultra CZ48 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Any ideas?

Had this system ever booted freenas? Your motherboard isn't very good and could possibly cause the problems.

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[kybandy]

Had this system ever booted freenas? Your motherboard isn't very good and could possibly cause the problems.

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I've never successfully booted FreeNAS. I have, however, successfully booted Ubuntu just to make sure the motherboard isn't faulty and everything seemed to work with Ubuntu.

 

[SweetAndLow]

I've never successfully booted FreeNAS. I have, however, successfully booted Ubuntu just to make sure the motherboard isn't faulty and everything seemed to work with Ubuntu.

Well you answered the question then. Motherboard isn't supported. Try reading the hardware guide before picking your hardware.

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[Monkeen]

Has anyone gotten to the bottom of this? I was reading through the bug thread (https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/20927) and it looks like it was supposed to be resolved however when I tried installing the current Freenas 9.10 my system also got stuck at "loading kernel modules. Does anyone have any guidance or is it definitely an unsupported MoBo issue?

My build:

• CPU: Pentium G4560 KabyLake Dual Core LGA1151 3.50GHz
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H270N-WIFI LGA1151 ITX Motherboard
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 DRAM DIMM 3000MHz C15
• Data drive (x4): WD Red 4TB SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive WD40EFRX
• Boot drive (x2): Sandisk 32GB CZ43 Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drive

 

[SweetAndLow]

Has anyone gotten to the bottom of this? I was reading through the bug thread (https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/20927) and it looks like it was supposed to be resolved however when I tried installing the current Freenas 9.10 my system also got stuck at "loading kernel modules. Does anyone have any guidance or is it definitely an unsupported MoBo issue?

My build:

• CPU: Pentium G4560 KabyLake Dual Core LGA1151 3.50GHz
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H270N-WIFI LGA1151 ITX Motherboard
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 DRAM DIMM 3000MHz C15
• Data drive (x4): WD Red 4TB SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive WD40EFRX
• Boot drive (x2): Sandisk 32GB CZ43 Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drive

The change went into freenas 11. You should just wait until that is released or if you can't wait upgrade to the release candidate.

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[Monkeen]

Thanks SweetAndLow. I have had Corral running successfully on my system but since I'm a noob I have concerns that if I set up a Raid in Corral I run the risk of losing data on the no longer supported release. How can I upgrade to the release candidate?

 

[gpsguy]

Look in the resources section for a document desiring how to migrate from Corral to 9.10.x. Instead of going to 9.10 you'd need to use FreeNAS 11. RC3 was just released. Maybe next week for the release version.

 

[Monkeen]

Thanks for your help team. I've got FreeNas 11 installed and everything working =)