System will freeze while booting after upgrade/fresh install

[pschatz100]

I presume your 32gb usb stick is USB3 capable, where an older 8gb may not be. Have you tried different USB ports? Some folks have reported problems when trying to boot from a USB3 port. In some of these instances, using a USB2 port worked. Also, at least one person commented that his system would boot after disabling USB3 support in his bios.

Although this may not be your problem, it is well documented that FreeNAS and USB3 do not play well together.

 

[Bmck26]

I got it to work with the 32gb stick. I was using a usb 2.0 port but I disabled usb 3.0 in the BIOS anyway. Turns out that wasn't the problem. Win32 Disk Imager didn't write to the installation usb correctly on my desktop. I don't what was causing it. I busted out my work laptop, used Hard Disk Wipe Tool from HDDGURU.com to wipe the usb stick, and tried again with Disk Imager from the laptop. Everything worked fine.

 

[pschatz100]

Glad you got it working.

 

[cyberjock]

Here's a workaround for the mountroot problem...

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...semi-fix-for-mountroot-issues-with-9-3.26071/